Self-rehabilitation ability as a result of earlier educational-rehabilitational actions

Abstract

Self-rehabilitation is understood as a creative process oriented on oneself, whose actor and target is the same person. Self-rehabilitation is an activity of compensative nature, which requires the persons with disability to adopt an active approach towards themselves. Self-rehabilitation ability characterizes those people whose own activity was sustained throughout their childhood at such a level that constantly motivated them to meet new challenges. Self-rehabilitation is accompanied by intellectual and emotional processes which enable continuous updating and realistic estimation of the current emotional-cognitive situation of the person prepared to undertake self-rehabilitational actions. Self-realization and self-rehabilitation have much in common, although self-rehabilitation does not refer to fully abled persons. The self-rehabilitational behaviours are those elements of behaviour that are observable in a person with disability but not in a fully abled person. Selfrehabilitation is the realization of the resilience potential, i.e. the organism’s ability to adapt to conditions in which – despite previously lost capabilities – it can achieve optimum performance, owing to the reorganization of brain functioning.