What is cognitive behavior therapy?
Going through cognitive behavioral therapy is not an overnight process for the brain injured population. Even after patients learn to recognize when and where their mental processes go awry, it still takes considerable time and effort to replace a dysfunctional cognitive behavioral process.
Our family was not prepared to comprehend the full magnitude of the life changes that would occur once our son returned home full time. We were among the fortunate to have a loved one well enough to return home but were unprepared for what would come.
Cognitive Behavior therapy is based on the idea that our thoughts cause our feelings and behaviors not things like people or situations and events. The benefit of this fact is that we can change the way we think to feel and act better even if the situation does not change.
It is considered the fastest in terms of results obtained.
Therapists believe that the clients change because they learn how to think differently and they act on that learning
It is a collaborative effort between the therapist and the client
This therapy may not be beneficial as denial of disability is standard post brain injury. There are lists of words that describe abnormal behavior as a “”sequelae” of TBI.
Perserveration-The aimless repetition of a task or an behavior or idea-is very common sign of brain injury. Some people cannot stop washing their hair or clapping their hands. Others, once they think they have to find something or do something, cannot stop talking or thinking about it.
Emotionally labile phase in which is often overtaken by sadness. Yet this is a good sign. Acknowledging one’s own loss and another’s stress is a significant step toward cognitive recovery.
Confabulation is one of the more interesting side effects of brain injury. It usually occurs at the stage when the person still suffering from posttraumatic amnesia-that is when the brain is scrambling to repair itself. It is still incapable of dealing with short term memory. When we were little, our parents called it lying, but the term “confabulation” is actually more accurate for children, too, since it refers to a “lie” in which the person is incapable of knowing the truth. Confabulation after brain injury or at the age of three stems from the developmental problems-as kids, we didn’t always understand what was true and what was not, and neither does the brain injury patient.
Paralysis returns whenever mentally overstimulated or threatened. In brain injury jargon, this sudden return of paralysis is call “inattention”. The brain, overloaded with visual or aural stimuli, lets go of something else it is doing.
Refusal to eat or overeating is one of the biggest behavior problems to overcome and frequently is due to chemical imbalance.
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