Deans' stroke musings: Positive psychology in rehabilitation medicine: A brief report

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Tuesday, December 9, 2014

Positive psychology in rehabilitation medicine: A brief report

How positive are you that your recovery is completely up to your work and your research on what needs to be done? But is this study on positive psychology completely refuted by the book, 'Rethinking Positive Thinking; Inside the New Science of Motivation' by Gabriele Oettingen?
http://search.naric.com/research/rehab/redesign_record.cfm?search=2&type=all&criteria=J69654&phrase=no&rec=125963
NARIC Accession Number: J69654. What's this?
ISSN: 1053-8135.
Author(s): Bertisch, Hilary; Rath, Joseph; Long, Coralynn; Ashman, Teresa; Rashid, Tayyab.
Publication Year: 2014.
Number of Pages: 13.
Abstract: Study explored the relationships between positive psychology constructs (character strengths, resilience, and positive mood) and rehabilitation-related variables (perceptions of functional ability post-injury and beliefs about treatment) within a baseline data set, a six-month follow-up data set, and longitudinally across time points. Pearson correlations and supplementary multiple regression analyses were conducted within and across these time points from a starting sample of 39 individuals with acquired brain injury in an outpatient rehabilitation program. Results indicated that positive psychology constructs were related to rehabilitation-related variables within the baseline data set, within the follow-up data set, and longitudinally between baseline positive psychology variables and follow-up rehabilitation-related data. These preliminary findings support relationships between character strengths, resilience, and positive mood states with perceptions of functional ability and expectations of treatment, respectively, which are primary factors in treatment success and quality of life outcomes in rehabilitation medicine settings. The results suggest the need for more research in this area, with an ultimate goal of incorporating positive psychology constructs into rehabilitation conceptualization and treatment planning.
Descriptor Terms: ADJUSTMENT, CLIENT CHARACTERISTICS, MENTAL HEALTH, PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS, REHABILITATION MEDICINE.

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Citation: Bertisch, Hilary, Rath, Joseph, Long, Coralynn, Ashman, Teresa, Rashid, Tayyab. (2014). Positive psychology in rehabilitation medicine: A brief report. Neurorehabilitation, 34(3), Pgs. 573-585. Retrieved 12/9/2014, from REHABDATA database.

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NeuroRehabilitation.