Individual Psychological Therapies with Brain Injury

This course provides an overview of neuropsychotherapy approaches within neuro-rehabilitation settings and brain injury services. Adaptations to psychotherapy technique are provided for CBT, ACT, Mindfulness, CFT. CAT, Psychodynamic, Neurobehavioural, Mind-Body, Systemic, Narrative and Community interventions. These adaptations are made in response to survivor difficulties with episodic memory, working memory and attention, executive goal-orientated functioning, social cognition and aphasia.

The approaches are covered with reference to both neuropsychology and rehabilitation theory, and detailed case examples from each modality.