Rehabilitation: an 'everyday' motivation model.

In this article a model is presented to deal with motivational problems of rehabilitation patients. The problem of motivation is not covered yet in relevant psychological disciplines like rehabilitation psychology, neuropsychology and health psychology. An important source of the model is cognitive psychology. Applications are presented in the communication between rehabilitation workers and the patient. The model can be put into practice in a wide range of patients with physical and/or cerebral handicaps.