UK Clinical Neuropsychology
Therapies
Therapies
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
CBT helps people to recognise the relationship between thoughts, emotions, physical feelings and behaviour (or actions) and how links between these maintain distress.
Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT)
ACT teaches people strategies that help them accept rather than challenge difficult thoughts and experiences, with a view to promoting engagement in valued activities.
Compassion-Focused Therapy (CFT)
CFT aims to help those who struggle with shame and self-criticism. It teaches people to cultivate skills of self and other-related compassion.
Positive Behaviour Support (PBS)
PBS involves understanding and addressing the reasons for problematic behaviour.
Narrative Therapy
In Narrative Therapy there is a focus on the stories that people develop and carry through life and how these might be modified following brain injury.
Therapy for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (TF-CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization & Reprocessing (EMDR) target symptoms associated with PTSD.
Cognitive Rehabilitation
Cognitive Rehabilitation involves considering a range of interventions for ‘restoring’ cognitive function and/ or ‘compensating’ for difficulties with thinking skills.
Vocational Rehabilitation
Vocational Rehabilitation aims to address barriers that exist in maintaining or returning to work or education after a brain injury.
Systemic & Couples therapy
With these interventions the therapist assists people to recognise entrenched patterns in interactions that are causing problems so as to assist with making positive change.