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ORIGINAL RESEARCH
The social situation of rehabilitation of a post-stroke patient with “frontal lobe syndrome”.
Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education "Dubna University"
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V. B. Khoziev – professor, doctor of psychological sciences and head of the department of clinical psychology of the Federal State Budgetary Educational Institution of Higher Education “Dubna University” for supervision and assistance in preparing this article.
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Frontal dysfunctions are frequent pathologies in the neurodegenerative diseases development such as Alzheimer's disease, mental debility, encephalopathy and cerebrovascular diseases. For this reason, it is necessary to develop methods of rehabilitation for such patients. This paper proposes the method of an appeal to the social situation of rehabilitation as a field to implement means of compensation for violations of executive function and programming and control of arbitrary activity. In this paper we demonstrate the dynamics of rehabilitation of the patient with such violations, give examples of possible means provided by a specialist (e.g. schemes of an indicative basis of action for performing household and professional tasks), and describe the possibility of relatives engagement into the rehabilitation process in order to control the use of these means and to internalize them by the patient themselves in the future, using the method of content-analysis.
Keywords: neuropsychological rehabilitation, social situation of rehabilitation, recovery after stroke, frontal lobe syndrome