Neurocognitive Learning Therapy: Theory and Practice

• Main Authors: Wasserman, Theodore (Author), Wasserman, Lori Drucker (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Subjects: Psychology.; Psychiatry.; Social work.; Neuropsychology.; Child psychology.; School psychology.; Social Work.; Child and School Psychology.

This groundbreaking volume introduces the theoretical base and clinical methods of Neurocognitive Learning Therapy, an integrative framework for client-centered intervention. The model unifies psychology and neuroscience in revisiting the connections between brain and behavior, replacing the cogniti...

Table of Contents:

• NCLT Theory and Background
• Inroduction to neurocognitive learning theory
• The theoretical basis for NCLT
• Eclecticism redefined
• The Clinical Practice of NCLT
• Clinical procedures
• The role of reward recognition in therapy
• Disorders of Arousal and Their Treatment
• Arousal and motivation
• Clinical implications of hypo-arousal and hyper-arousal
• The poorly motivated patient
• Disorders of Engagement and Their Treatment
• Clinical implications of hypo-engagement and hyper-engagement
• Obsessive compulsive disorder
• Disorders of Inhibition and Modulation
• Clinical implications of hypo-inhibition and hyper-inhibition
• Clinical implications of failure to acclimate
• Disorders of Initiation and Impulsivity
• Clinical implications of failure to initiate
• Examples of initiation disorders and their treatment
• NCLT Future Directions
• Summary and conclusions
• NCLT forms and practice organizers.