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This treatment manual provides step by step instructions for a 6-session program to help people develop practical knowledge and skills to ameliorate their everyday memory difficulties. The training program was developed based on the neuropsychological literature for memory rehabilitation, particularly focusing on compensatory memory strategies. It is also based upon training approaches and strategies from the fields of clinical psychology, experimental learning and cognitive neurosciences. The manual is comprehensive, clearly structured and sufficiently detailed for clinical use. It has been validated in a relatively large clinical trial (Richardson, Lah, Say, Thayer & Miller, 2009; Radford et al., manuscript in preparation). The program was developed to meet the needs and concerns of patients with various non-progressive neurological disorders, including traumatic brain injury, stroke and epilepsy. However, this program might easily be adapted for other groups with everyday memory concerns.