COGNITIVE
THERAPY
Cognitive therapy uses the six domains of cognitive functioning to assess individual needs and determine a plan to maintain or increase abilities.
Therapy might look like:
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Deficit-based cognitive testing
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Motivational interviews to determine the impact on functional day-to-day tasks
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Goal setting as a care team
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Developing and practicing strategies to ease deficit impact such as home exercises, situational practice, and activity modifications
Six Domains of Cognitive Functioning
Executive Functioning
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Trouble initiating, planning, organizing, and carrying out a task
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Difficulty with decision making
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Changes in problem solving and reasoning skills
Memory
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Difficulty with orientation of time, place, or people
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Changes with short-term or long-term memory
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Difficulty with day-to-day tasks
Social Cognition
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Trouble with topic maintenance and taking other perspectives
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Poor insight to deficits
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Difficulty responding to non-verbal cues (body language, facial expression, etc.)
Attention
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Distracted by the environment
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Difficulty completing one task at a time
Language
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Trouble with word finding and processing verbal information
Visuospatial Skills
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Struggling with visual neglect, like ignoring visual input on one side of the body