Rehabilitation; concepts, practices and research

rtura Research: a review of concepts and practices

Developing Concepts and Practices of Research in Computing

Typically a graduate research methods course for a discipline has at least two goals: exposure to the relevant body of knowledge associated with the discipline and coverage of the accepted research styles associated with the discipline. One way to accomplish this is to prescribe to the class a predetermined collection of published, refereed papers. These papers provide the opportunity for stude...

Rehabilitation of Concepts

Terror management theory: Theoretical concepts, experimental research and Critics

Terror management theory (Greenberg, Pyszczynski & Solomon, 1986) considers the desire for survival as the underlying motivation for human behavior. Given his cognitive capacity and ability to think abstractly about the future, man realizes that his death is inevitable, which causes Paralysing terror. Man has developed certain psychological structures to protect himself from this terror. A cult...

Background Concepts in Stroke Rehabilitation

Evidence that neurological and functional recovery occurs in both the acute and chronic phases poststroke. Rehabilitation has been shown to be most beneficial when started early; however, recovery of stroke-related impairments are still possible months and even years later. Stroke recovery is influenced by a variety of intrinsic and external factors which influence the likelihood and degree of ...