Abstract
Patients with cerebral insult and resultant cognitive deficit form a growing but often neglected population, who may benefit greatly from increased psychological input. Relatively little information exists on group psychotherapy within the cognitively impaired population and there are few published guidelines on how best to meet the psychological needs of this complex and varied group of patients. By combining the common sequelae of cerebral insult, well established principles of group therapy and personal experience, this article highlights the numerous difficulties and dilemmas encountered in group psychotherapy with a cognitively impaired population and draws on the available group therapy literature in an attempt to provide some insight and possibilities for the future.
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Stein, S.M. Group psychotherapy and patients with cognitive impairment. J Dev Phys Disabil 8, 263–273 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02578394
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