Neuropsychological Intervention

Any method used to improve cognition, emotions, or behaviour after a known or suspected brain injury.

Initially focused on lesion location, now prioritises patient's strengths and weaknesses, aiming to help them manage daily tasks.

Giving patients information and feedback about their condition.

Helping patients adapt to changes caused by brain impairment.

Techniques helping recover cognitive skills after a brain injury.

Treatments for emotional or behavioural problems from brain impairment.

Shock, denial, guilt, blame, sadness, and anxiety are common feelings after brain impairment.

Changes in roles and responsibilities.

Cognitive rehabilitation is helpful for people with mild or moderate dementia to improve everyday tasks.

Techniques like mnemonics, imagery, and self-instruction to improve memory for people with mild-moderate TBI.

Explaining how the brain works using analogies (e.g., bank, phone, filing cabinet).

Methods like chunking, elaboration, association, and categorization to improve memory.

Visualizing a location (like your house) to memorize information by placing items in different locations.

A method for learning, involving previewing, questioning, reading, stating responses, and regular testing.

A method where the correct response is shown first to avoid errors, suitable for severe memory impairment

Retrieving information at increasing time intervals to improve long-term memory.

Repeated behaviors that pose a safety risk, limit access to activities or create social isolation.

Analyzing challenging behaviors to develop interventions designed to change or reduce them, promoting positive outcomes.

To understand the person, reduce challenging behaviours, improve independent functioning, foster quality of life & teach pro-social behaviour.

Analyzing antecedents and consequences of target behaviors to understand their purpose.

Events or situations that happen before a behaviour, and may influence it.

Events or conditions that happen after a behaviour, and are influenced by it.

Therapy to improve cognitive skills, primarily used following acquired brain injuries.

Interventions to improve cognitive functioning in mental health or other conditions involving neurological decline.

The brain's ability to change and reorganize itself by forming new neural connections.

A holistic approach considering biological, psychological, and social factors.

Using the best available research to guide interventions.

Re-establishing already existing cognitive functions.

Using alternative methods to compensate for impaired functions.

A framework for understanding health and disability.

Immediate effects of brain injury on thoughts, feelings, and behavior.