Goal Management Training for Adult Survivors of Childhood Leukemia and Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma With Neurocognitive Sequelae

The manual comprises an introduction to GMT for the survivors of ALL, and a detailed session structure incorporating cognitive and behavioral tasks. The GMT program involves teaching the participants about goals, attention slips and how to manage these, how to review and prioritize goals (e.g., Stop, Think, Organize, Plan), and how to keep goals in mind (e.g., using analogies such as the mental blackboard). Each session will follow the same general format; namely, facility-delivered presentations, flipchart discussions, group activities and homework.

BHW is a psycho-educative control condition, and is typically part of psycho-educative Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) rehabilitation programs, but adjusted for the ALL group of participants. The psycho-educative control condition BHW will be matched GMT for amount of training and therapist contact. Homework assignment and in-session tasks included readings, brain games, puzzles, and practical exercises such as logging sleep.