Open AccessDefining the treatment targets and active ingredients of rehabilitation: Implications for rehabilitation psychology.
Author(s) -
Tessa Hart,
Dawn M. Ehde
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
rehabilitation psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.673
H-Index - 66
eISSN - 1939-1544
pISSN - 0090-5550
DOI - 10.1037/rep0000031
Subject(s) - rehabilitation , psychological intervention , process (computing) , action (physics) , psychology , function (biology) , quality (philosophy) , goal setting , psychotherapist , applied psychology , physical medicine and rehabilitation , medicine , physical therapy , computer science , social psychology , psychiatry , philosophy , physics , epistemology , quantum mechanics , evolutionary biology , biology , operating system
Rehabilitation is a complex field incorporating many disciplines, settings, interventions, and populations, with patient goals ranging from improvement in function to enhanced participation in societal roles. Although there has been progress in measuring the inputs to the rehabilitation process, such as patient characteristics, and the outputs (i.e., outcomes) of the process, little attention has been devoted to specifying and measuring the process itself: the treatment. In this article, the authors describe a framework by which rehabilitation interventions, including those delivered by rehabilitation psychologists, may be defined according to the treatment theories underlying them.