Rehab rounds: cognitive modifiability as a measure of readiness for rehabilitation.

Introduction by the column editors: Readiness for rehabilitation has been viewed as a function of the phase of a disabling mental illness, with readiness increasing as a person passes from an acute phase to a more stable phase (1). Other practitioners have conceptualized rehabilitation readiness subjectively—that is, as a mixture of a consumer's level of self-confidence and degree of interest in participating in modalities of psychiatric rehabilitation (2). An alternative and empirically validated perspective explored in a previous column defined rehabilitation readiness as an individual's capacity to perform well in a rehabilitation program (3).