Cognitive Remediation

Cognitive Remediation is a therapeutic approach that uses structured exercises and strategies to improve cognitive skills like memory, attention, and problem-solving, enhancing daily functioning and quality of life.

Core Features:
Targeted Exercises
Uses specific tasks, computer programs, or paper-based exercises to enhance cognitive functioning.
Guided Sessions
Involves a trained psychologist or clinician who provides support, feedback, and strategies for skill improvement.
Focus on Daily Functioning
An emphasis on applying improved cognitive skills to activities and challenges in every day life.
 

What Is

Cognitive Remediation?

Cognitive Remediation is direct brain training exercise that engages the client's specific areas of neurocognitive functions. Utilizing the brain's neuroplasticity, Cognitive Remediation allows the client to practice tasks and improve functioning skills overtime.

Cognitive Remediation exercises are not 'brain games' that one may encounter on commercial websites or mobile apps, but rather actual neuropsychological tasks in which clients engage specific brain regions determined to be adversely affecting their functioning, resulting in improved daily functioning. In using these specific brain regions, Cognitive Remediation allows clients to hone in on and improve skills through everyday real-world practice and exercise both in office and at home.

Cognitive Remediation is evidence-based and focuses on neuroplasticity—the brain's ability to adapt and improve through practice.

Core Neurocognitive Functions Treatment Helps

With enhanced neurocognitive functions, it contributes to better academic, occupational, and social outcomes for individuals undergoing congnitve remediation therapy.

  • Attention: Sustain Attention on a Task Without Distraction, Selectively Filter Out Irrelevant Information While Focusing on What's Important
  • Memory: Temporarily Holding and Manipulating Information, Storing and Recalling Information Over Long-Term
  • Executive Functioning: Planning and Organization, Problem-Solving, Inhibitory Control, and Cognitive Flexibility
  • Visual-Spatial Reasoning: Recognizing Patterns, Interpreting Visual Information, and Understanding Spatial Relationships
  • Auditory Processing: Recognizing and Interpreting Sounds and Speech
  • Language Processing: Generating and Organizing Verbal Fluency, Comprehension of Verbal and Written Language
  • Social Functioning / Knowledge and Judgement: Ability to Interpret and Respond to Social Cues (Facial Expressions and Tone of Voice)
  • Theory of Mind: Understand and Attribute Mental States to Oneself and Others (Perspectives, Thoughts, Beliefs, Emotions, Desires)
  • Processing Speed: Perceive, Process, and Respond to Information Quickly and Efficiently
Cognitive Remediation will open a whole multitude of possibilities to assist our patients that have clinical disorders and/or those that are seeking optimization/increasing cognitive capacities.

As neurofeedback trains the neurophysiological structures of the electrical brain and improves functioning of the 'hardware' systems in the brain, cognitive remediation provides real-world use of the aforementioned neurophysiological functions. Cognitive remediation trains the 'software' dimension of the brain and is where "the rubber meets the road" in demonstrating the use of brain functions that are essential to everyday life functions. In other words, neurofeedback builds and develops 'muscles', while cognitive remediation is able to utilize these specific brain regions  that have been improved and continue to hone in and improve skills through everyday real-world practice and exercise.

As you might of guessed, Advanced Counseling and Testing Solutions' Cognitive Remediation Program has a research base to the application of this treatment modality. Therefore, there will be an entire process including an intake, treatment planning, consistent monitoring of progress in session and throughout the program itself. Guided by psychologists and clinicians, this is a very hands-on clinical program that will enable patients to make significant improvements. All clinicians have the capability to refer patients and each psychologist will be managing the overall program for each individual patient on the psychologist's caseload. Our Cognitive Remediation Program will require 1-3 hours a week of in-office training (as well as at-home training availability) over the course of 16 weeks. Of course, the length of the program (number of weeks) may be shorter or longer, depending on the severity of the patient's symptoms and the nature of their disorder.

Advanced Counseling and Testing Solutions' Cognitive Remediation Program
Requires 1-3 hours of in-office services per week over 16 weeks.

  • Step 1Intake

    Initially, our professionals will get to know you and your background history.

  • Step 2Treatment Plan

    Our professionals will work with you to come up with the proper treatment plan that aligns with your personal goals.

  • Step 3Progress Monitoring

    Consistent monitoring of the client and their progression in sessions and through the program.

Treatment will be at the discretion of the psychologist with ACTS guidelines. For example, a mild case of ADHD may require fewer weeks of training length than the length of training for a more severe disorder, like dementia. Training will be attuned to the level of the patient's neurocognitive and neuropsychological diversity and the intensity and duration of the diagnosed condition.

Please do not hesitate to contact our office today if you have a patient who may benefit from Cognitive Remediation at Advanced Counseling and Testing Solutions. Call or email us today!
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