| Cognitive training | Cognitive rehabilitation |
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Target | Impairment | Participation restriction |
Context | Structured tasks and environments | Real-world setting |
Focus of intervention | Isolated cognitive abilities and processes | Groups of cognitive abilities and processes required to perform everyday tasks |
Format | Individualized or group | Individualized |
Proposed mechanism of action | Mainly restorative; sometimes combined with psychoeducation and strategy training | A combination of restorative and compensatory approaches combined with psychoeducation and strategy training |
Goals | Improved or maintained ability in specific cognitive domains | Performance and functioning in relation to collaboratively set goals |