Description
The treatment landscape for dementia and brain related cognitive interventions is rapidly changing, making it difficult to stay abreast of treatments that work and those that have been over-hyped.
Sherrie All – Clinical Action for Dementia, TBI, Concussion, Stroke and Other Cognitive Declines: Assessment and Treatment Techniques for Cognitive Rehabilitation and Neuroplasticity
With the popular understanding of brain plasticity increasing while concussion-related conditions are gaining a wealth of media focus, patients are looking to you to help them separate fact from fiction about brain health and rehabilitation.
Using the latest science, Dr. All will teach you practical interventions to best help your clients build and maintain cognitive skills and functional independence. You will leave this recording with a comprehensive toolbox of evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation interventions and the skills you need to match them to the cognitive domains for which they are most effective.
Drawing on over 15 years of clinical experience, Dr. All will teach you techniques and interventions to effectively:
Assess for cognitive decline and accurately interpret complicated assessment reports
Determine when to refer out to a specialist for more detailed assessment
Put the recommendations of a neuropsychological report into action
Create actionable treatment plans to immediately start helping your clients
Expand working memory and enhance attention, generalizing to real-world functioning
Improve memory encoding, consolidation, and retrieval to improve client independence
Expand executive functions including planning and problem solving to promote flexible thinking
Improve visuospatial function and language to enhance client independence and social functioning
Walk away with practical and useful techniques that can be implemented immediately within your practice. Start feeling confident in delivering the rehabilitation interventions your clients facing cognitive decline so desperately need!
Handouts
Manual – Clinical Action (7.72 MB) 99 Pages Available after Purchase Instructions for ASHA Credit – SELF STUDY ONLY – 03/28/19 (38.5 KB) Available after Purchase
Outline
THE FRAMEWORK AND SCIENCE OF COGNITIVE REHABILITATION: NOT ALL BRAIN GAMES ARE REHABILITATION
Brain plasticity and the latest research
Associated brain regions and functions
Compensatory vs. restorative strategies
Cognitive stimulation, cognitive training and cognitive rehabilitation
ASSESSMENT APPROACHES FOR COGNITIVE DECLINE
What the MOCA and SLUMS are telling you and not telling you
When to refer for a full neuropsychological assessment
Make the most of assessment results including neuropsychology reports
Static (TBI / stroke) vs. progressive decline (Alzheimer’s disease): Set and maintain realistic treatment goals
Taking care to not “over-pathologize†concussions: Know the difference between concussion, TBI, CTE and dementia
The use of mood and personality measures
INTERVENTION APPROACHES FOR BARRIERS TO REHABILITATION: MOOD, MOTIVATION & ANXIETY
Motivational interviewing to cultivate engagement and brain health interventions
Treat anxiety and false beliefs to improve cognition
Adjustment to illness and grief: Counseling the brain impaired patient
THE COGNITIVE DECLINE TOOLBOX: REAL WORLD TREATMENT STRATEGIES FOR EACH COGNITIVE DOMAIN
ATTENTION & WORKING MEMORY
The neural bases of attention impairment
Help clients understand working memory capacity as a means of improving metacognition
Improve attention and reduce errors by following the DIRECT model and using PEAS & LEAP
“Focused drilling†to expand working memory capacity and generalizing to other outcomes
Mindfulness training to help clients shape attention and improve focus
MEMORY: PROSPECTIVE, ENCODING & RECALL
The neural bases of memory impairment
Frontiers in Alzheimer’s disease management
Tailor memory training interventions to level of severity & motivation
Effective use of calendars and other external memory aids for effective daily functioning
Elaborative encoding techniques using visualization, linking and chunking
Memory aids in traditional psychotherapy treatments
Strategies for effective recall of learned information
EXECUTIVE FUNCTION
The neural bases of executive function impairment
Stroke and cerebrovascular disease
Improve planning for greater goal attainment with the use of a reverse timeline worksheet
Expand flexible thinking with 6-step problem solving
The neural basis of stress management and emotion regulation
VISUOSPATIAL & LANGUAGE
The neural bases of visual and language impairment
Useful Field of View Training (UFOV) for driving independence
The “language wallet†for independence among people with aphasia
Supported conversation and script training for aphasia
HOLISTIC BRAIN HEALTH INTERVENTIONS
Shape the brain’s destiny: Cognitive reserve to build resistance and resilience to cognitive decline
The impact of socialization on brain health and recovery
Psychotherapy’s impact on brain health
Effective cognitive stimulation: The truth about brain games & crosswords
Teach clients how their brain works through metacognition intervention
RESEARCH, LIMITATIONS AND RISKS
