This publication explains how bodily behavior can be highly problematic, and how people with cognitive disability become even more difficult to handle when frontal lobe inhibitions are released.  The compulsion to preserve “self” dominates all their thoughts and actions, making it so hard for formal and informal caregivers to understand that in a person with cognitive disability, the innate need to be absorbed in self-interest has origins in underlying biological causes. 

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A Cognitive Link: Managing Problematic Bodily Behavior has been written for health care professionals and caregivers who need to fully understand how bodily behavior can be cognitively restricted by brain pathology and what needs to be done to allow people to function to the best of their ability. There is a fine balance between doing too much and only assisting when an action, or step, is beyond the cognitive ability of a person trying to complete a task.

 The book is organized into five chapters with the fifth chapter divided into two parts, the first part explains how to use the individual forms representing each of the Allen Cognitive Level.modes. The second part of the fifth chapter consists of the “Measurement of Bodily Behavior – Intervention Forms: 25 Allen Cognitive Level.modes”.  To gain a greater understanding of the Allen Cognitive Levels, it is advisable to read this book in conjunction with the publication, “Allen Cognitive Levels: meeting the Challenges of Client Focused Services”. Both books have been written for health care professionals working in the tertiary, primary and community care sectors.

NOTE: This book can also be purchased from 'SelectOneRehab'  Distributor of Rehab & Exercise Products to purchase this book from this company please email Steve Brooks at stephenb@tds.net

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