of group art therapy for stroke patients as a part of a rehabilitation program. Soon after the onset of stroke, patients usually experience a major emotional turbulence due to loss of motor, language, or cognitive capacities. The primary goal of art therapy in stroke rehabilitation is to help patients process and readapt to the multiple aspects of this new situation. The case of a 51-yr-old male stroke patient is presented to illustrate the use of this therapeutic model. Handbook of Rehab. Psychology:Constraint-induced (CI) movement therapy greatly increases the amount of use of an impaired upper extremity in patients with chronic stroke by repeatedly practicing use of the stroke-affected arm and constraining use of the unaffected arm. This new approach to physical rehabilitation elaborated from basic research in behavioral psychology and neuroscience. This chapter provides a brief exploration of reasons why psychologists are not regularly involved in motor rehabilitation research and practice, a discussion of the importance of basic research for progress in rehabilitation, and a sketch of the contributions of basic behavioral psychology and neuroscience research to rehabilitation psychology. The authors also review the basic research on which CI therapy is founded, provide a model explaining the operation of CI therapy in terms of learning followed by use-dependent cortical reorganization, summarize the research on the application of CI therapy to chronic upper- and lower-extremity hemiparesis in patients with chronic stroke, and describe new methods in treatment outcome measurement that were developed in the laboratory. Topics in Stroke Rehabilitation: ***Presents the case of a 73-yr-old woman who presented to an inpatient rehabilitation hospital with right hemiplegia, dysphagia, and Broca's aphasia after suffering a left-hemisphere stroke. The S expressed a desire to return home after her discharge from the rehabilitation hospital, b...
