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Unawareness and/or denial of disability: Implications for occupational therapy intervention
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Key words
* Rehabilitation, cognitive
* Denial
* Intervention process, occupational therapy
* Awareness
Abstract
Occupational therapy focus on client-centred, occupational performance intervention may become complicated by the phenomena of self-awareness. The problem of awareness deficits in clients with neurological disorders may be attributed to neurological impairment of self-awareness and/or psychological denial of disability. These phenomen...
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