Full Course Description
Cognitive Rehabilitation: Therapy ... Therapy ... Therapy!!!
Objectives:
At the completion of this self-study package, you will be able to:
- Discuss how to bridge the gap from philosophy to practice, and from paper-pencil therapeutic task to daily functioning activity, by identifying the underpinnings of the different systems and processes of cognition.
- Discuss specific “Art of Memory” techniques and strategies (utilized by World Memory Championship competitors) to design specific therapeutic tasks that can create a structural change in memory.
- Identify the critical role that awareness deficits play in contributing to rehabilitation outcomes and discuss the interventions and techniques that facilitate awareness and guide the patient to independent functioning.
- Summarize the components of executive functions and discuss how these components are contingent upon other cognitive processes that manifest cognitive and behavioral disorders.
- Define step-by-step therapeutic intervention techniques specifically designed for progressive neurological diseases and low-level cognitive patients.
- Identify the components of a defendable skilled goal and discuss what medically defines a skilled from a non-skilled intervention.
- Evaluate the role of self-efficacy and ownership and the principles needed to have the patient ultimately responsible for the treatment program.
- Discuss caregiver training techniques, communication strategies and guidelines for patient intervention ultimately affecting therapeutic outcomes.
- Recall specific therapeutic approaches for cognitive intervention with respect to specific medical diagnosis.
- List the latest research on how depression/mood, drugs, stress/anxiety, sleep, diet and exercise affect cognition, and acquire specific intervention strategies to maximize brain function.
Outline:
- Therapy: The "First" Half
- Self-Awareness: Levels of Awareness and Interventions
- Self-Efficacy: Sources and Interventions
- Ownership: Increasing Patient Participation
- Models of Care/Approaches to Therapy
- Direct Therapy/Indirect Therapy
- Therapy via Medical Diagnosis: High-Level Cognition
- High-Level Cognition Intervention: Structural Change
- Attention Systems
- Selective Attention
- Focused Attention
- Sustained Attention
- Divided Attention
- Directed Attention
- Shifting Attention
- Visual Processing Systems
- Visual Cognition
- Visual Memory
- Pattern Recognition
- Scanning
- Visual Attention
- Oculomotor Skills
- Visual Fields
- Visual Acuity
- Information Processing Systems
- Processing Speed
- Processing Control
- Processing Capacity
- Memory: Declarative Memory System
- Method of Loci
- Visual Imagery
- Chunking
- Association
- Mental Organization
- Linking
- Elaboration
- Acronyms, Acrostics
- Rhymes, Rhythms, Rote
- Rehearsal and the Curve of Forgetting
- Executive Functions
- Self-Regulation: Behavioral & Verbal
- Initiation/Inhibiting
- Time Management
- Planning/Organization
- Problem Solving
- Therapy via Medical Diagnosis: Low-Level Cognition
- Low-Level Cognition Intervention: Guidelines for Intervention
- Errorless Learning
- Cognitive Loss and Abilities
- Low-Level Cognition Intervention: Skilled Enhancement
- Non-declarative Memory System
- Spaced Retrieval Therapy
- Montessori-Based Therapy
- Ability-Based Approaches / Therapy
- Validation Therapy
- Redirecting Therapy
- Reminiscence Therapy
- Caregiver Training
- FOCUSED: Communication Enhancement Program
- Allen's Cognitive Disability Theory / Therapy
- Documentation: Goals and Skilled Intervention
- Components of a Defendable Skilled Goal
- Skilled Terminology / Skilled Intervention
- The "Other" Half of THERAPY
- Stress and Anxiety: Strain on the Brain
- Drugs: Pharmaceutical/Poly-pharmaceutical/ Adverse Drug Reactions
- Depression: Different Shades of Blue
- Diet and Exercise
- Sleep and Cognition
- Bridging the Gap: Interactive Case Studies
Program Information
Target Audience
Speech-Language Pathologists, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants Rehab Managers, Directors of Nursing, Rehabilitation Nurses, Restorative Nursing Staff Activities Professionals, Recreational Therapists, Audiologists, Physical Therapists Physical Therapy Assistants, Social Workers
Objectives
- Discuss how to bridge the gap from philosophy to practice, and from paper-pencil therapeutic task to daily functioning activity, by identifying the underpinnings of the different systems and processes of cognition.
- Discuss specific “Art of Memory” techniques and strategies (utilized by World Memory Championship competitors) to design specific therapeutic tasks that can create a structural change in memory.
- Identify the critical role that awareness deficits play in contributing to rehabilitation outcomes and discuss the interventions and techniques that facilitate awareness and guide the patient to independent functioning.
- Summarize the components of executive functions and discuss how these components are contingent upon other cognitive processes that manifest cognitive and behavioral disorders.
- Define step-by-step therapeutic intervention techniques specifically designed for progressive neurological diseases and low-level cognitive patients.
- Identify the components of a defendable skilled goal and discuss what medically defines a skilled from a non-skilled intervention.
- Evaluate the role of self-efficacy and ownership and the principles needed to have the patient ultimately responsible for the treatment program.
- Discuss caregiver training techniques, communication strategies and guidelines for patient intervention ultimately affecting therapeutic outcomes.
- Recall specific therapeutic approaches for cognitive intervention with respect to specific medical diagnosis.
- List the latest research on how depression/mood, drugs, stress/anxiety, sleep, diet and exercise affect cognition, and acquire specific intervention strategies to maximize brain function.
Outline
- Therapy: The "First" Half
- Self-Awareness: Levels of Awareness and Interventions
- Self-Efficacy: Sources and Interventions
- Ownership: Increasing Patient Participation
- Models of Care/Approaches to Therapy
- Direct Therapy/Indirect Therapy
- Therapy via Medical Diagnosis: High-Level Cognition
- High-Level Cognition Intervention: Structural Change
- Attention Systems
- Selective Attention
- Focused Attention
- Sustained Attention
- Divided Attention
- Directed Attention
- Shifting Attention
- Visual Processing Systems
- Visual Cognition
- Visual Memory
- Pattern Recognition
- Scanning
- Visual Attention
- Oculomotor Skills
- Visual Fields
- Visual Acuity
- Information Processing Systems
- Processing Speed
- Processing Control
- Processing Capacity
- Memory: Declarative Memory System
- Method of Loci
- Visual Imagery
- Chunking
- Association
- Mental Organization
- Linking
- Elaboration
- Acronyms, Acrostics
- Rhymes, Rhythms, Rote
- Rehearsal and the Curve of Forgetting
- Executive Functions
- Self-Regulation: Behavioral & Verbal
- Initiation/Inhibiting
- Time Management
- Planning/Organization
- Problem Solving
- Therapy via Medical Diagnosis: Low-Level Cognition
- Low-Level Cognition Intervention: Guidelines for Intervention
- Errorless Learning
- Cognitive Loss and Abilities
- Low-Level Cognition Intervention: Skilled Enhancement
- Non-declarative Memory System
- Spaced Retrieval Therapy
- Montessori-Based Therapy
- Ability-Based Approaches / Therapy
- Validation Therapy
- Redirecting Therapy
- Reminiscence Therapy
- Caregiver Training
- FOCUSED: Communication Enhancement Program
- Allen's Cognitive Disability Theory / Therapy
- Documentation: Goals and Skilled Intervention
- Components of a Defendable Skilled Goal
- Skilled Terminology / Skilled Intervention
- The "Other" Half of THERAPY
- Stress and Anxiety: Strain on the Brain
- Drugs: Pharmaceutical/Poly-pharmaceutical/ Adverse Drug Reactions
- Depression: Different Shades of Blue
- Diet and Exercise
- Sleep and Cognition
- Bridging the Gap: Interactive Case Studies
Copyright :
03/26/2014