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This book is quite dear to me. Let me explain why. I come from a small country in South America where little is known about neuropsychological rehabilitation (NR). Only a handful of people practice it, and some even do not know what it means. So if you really need to learn the basics, the only option you have is to find the right books, or if you are really lucky, leaving the country to study abroad. Well, I have been very lucky, and during the last six years I have had the chance to live in the UK and get familiar with the way in which NR is conceived and practiced here. I believe this book embodies the spirit of doing NR in this part of the globe.
Now, this book is also special for other reasons. I particularly like it because it reflects a crucial momentum. Somehow, it testifies to the coming of age of one idea in modern NR: the acknowledgement of psychological interventions, which target emotional problems and emotional adjustment, as a core component of our rehabilitation work. Of course, this is quite an old principle in our field (Goldstein, 1939; Prigatano, 1999). However, it has taken a while to really accept it. For many years, the efforts of clinical neuropsychologists were directed to remediate cognitive impairments. And it was not until we realized that most cognitive deficits could not be remediated, and that in the best scenario they can only be compensated for, that we started seriously thinking about emotional adjustment and acceptance as main goals (Wilson, 1997). It is true; this topic has been addressed increasingly during the last decade in scientific articles and book chapters. However, to my knowledge, no other book like this one has developed this idea so systematically.
Several chapters in this book exemplify this point. For instance, Chapter 3, Therapy and Engagement, offers a novel take on the use of psychotherapy with individuals that have acquired a brain injury. Here, several authors, from different psychotherapeutic orientations (cogniti