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1. Use evidence-based techniques, strategies, and interventions for all levels of cognitive deficits
2. Determine cutting-edge therapy interventions utilizing state-of the-art memory techniques designed to change the brain’s neuroplasticity
3. Apply “meaning” to everyday therapeutic tasks, increasing patient participation, engagement and functional outcomes
4. Identify patients “Levels of Awareness” and their self-efficacy level, discussing treatment techniques that facilitate acceptance and outcomes
5. Explain how to document patient-centered goals, measure progress, and justify medical necessity 

CRUCIAL ELEMENTS FOR TREATING THE COGNITIVELY IMPAIRED

IDENTIFICATION AND TREATMEMT OF:

• Self-Awareness: Diagnose levels of, and treatment for patient awareness/insight and acceptance
• Self-Efficacy: Identify four major sources to increase patients self-belief
• Ownership: Interventions to increase patient participation and engagement
• Meaningful Therapy Theory: Making therapy personal!
• Patient self-rating scales

COGNITIVE THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES

• Direct therapy
• Indirect therapy
• Patient-centered

NEUROSCIENCE APPROACHES TO THE MEMORY SYSTEMS

• Declarative/Explicit/Conscious
• Non-Declarative/Implicit/Unconscious
• Work within the correct memory system for diagnoses

MEDICARE COMPLIANCE/MEDICAL NECESSITY/GOAL WRITING/DAILY DOCUMENTATION

• Components of a defensible, skilled goal
• Daily skilled terminology
• Measuring progress and justifying medical necessity

CHANGING NEUROPLASTICITY

• Direct Therapeutic Intervention for High-Level Cognitive Impairment
  • Attention Systems: Essential for learning
    • Selective Attention
    • Focused Attention
    • Sustained Attention
    • Divided Attention
    • Directed Attention
    • Shifting Attention
  • Visual Processing Systems and How to Maintain Them
    • Visual Cognition
    • Visual Memory
    • Pattern Recognition
    • Scanning
    • Visual Attention
    • Oculomotor Skills
    • Visual Fields
    • Visual Acuity
  • Information Processing Systems:
    • Relating them to function
    • Processing Speed
    • Processing Control
    • Processing Capacity
  • Memory Interventions for Neuroplasticity Changes in the Brain
    • Method of Loci
    • Visual Imagery
    • Chunking
    • Association
    • Mental Organization
    • Linking
    • Elaboration
  • Memory Interventions for Compensation Interventions
    • Acronyms, Acrostics
    • Rhymes, Rhythms, Rote
    • Rehearsal and Curve of Forgetting

DIRECT THERAPEUTIC INTERVENTIONS FOR DEGENERATIVE NEUROLOGICAL DISEASES/DEMENTIA

• Spaced Retrieval Therapy
• Errorless Learning Techniques
• Montessori-Based Therapy
• Ability-Based Approaches/Therapy
• Reminiscence Therapy
• Memory Books/Aids
• Allen Cognitive Techniques
• Medications

DIRECT THERAPEUTIC INTEVENTIONS FOR PATIENT COMMUNICATION

• Validation Therapy
• Redirecting Therapy
• Reflective Listening

INTERACTIVE CASE STUDIES

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Save time and $10 off the price of other submission methods – purchase & take the CE test online for $9.99 USD per participant. Additional processing fees apply for other submission methods (i.e. mail, fax, etc.). Please contact our Customer Service at 1-800-397-0180 for more details.

Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this self-study package. Please note, your state licensing board dictates whether self study is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations.

Certificates of Successful Completion are available for email, download and/or printing from your online account immediately following the successful completion of the post-test/evaluation.

**Materials that are included in this course may include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice of mental health professionals. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.

Continuing Education Information
This educational offering is designed to qualify for continuing education for many professionals in every state.


Materials that are included in this course could include interventions and modalities that are beyond the authorized practice for your profession. As a licensed professional, you are responsible for reviewing the scope of practice, including activities that are defined in law as beyond the boundaries of practice in accordance with and in compliance with your professions standards.


Listed below are the continuing education credit(s) currently available for this educational offering. Please note, your state licensing board dictates what is an acceptable form of continuing education. Please refer to your state rules and regulations. If your profession is not listed, please contact your licensing board to determine your continuing education requirements and check for reciprocal approval. For other credit inquiries not specified below, please contact customerservice@vyne.com or 800-397-0180.


CE information is based on 100% attendance.

Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider #50-466 with the Florida Department of Health Board of Occupational Therapy Practice. This educational offering is approved for 6 contact hours for Occupational Therapist and Occupational Therapy Assistants.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Illinois: Vyne Education, LLC. is a Registered Physical Therapy Continuing Education Sponsor through the State of Illinois Department of Financial and Professional Regulation, Division of Professional Regulation. License #:216.000309. This educational offering qualifies for 6 CE Credit Hours.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - New York: Vyne Education, LLC. is recognized by the New York State Education Department's State Board for Physical Therapy as an approved provider for physical therapy and physical therapist assistant continuing education. This educational offering is awarded 7.2 contact hours.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Arkansas: This educational offering has been approved by the Arkansas State Board Of Physical Therapy for 6 contact hours for Physical Therapists.

Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants - Indiana: This meets the IN-PT approval under 844 IAC 6-8-5 Approved Organizations #9, please contact IN Board or Association if you have questions.

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Psychologists
Vyne Education, LLC. is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for this program and its content. This educational offering offers 6 CE credits for psychologists. Full attendance is required to receive credit for psychologist, variable credit for partial attendance may not be awarded based on the APA guidelines.

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Social Workers

Vyne Education, LLC. provider #1005, "formerly Cross Country Education" is approved as a provider for social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB), through the Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program (an approved provider since 1999, approved period 1/27/2018-1/27/2021). Vyne Education, LLC. maintains responsibility for the program. Social workers will receive 6 General continuing education clock hours for participating in this educational offering. Licensed social workers should contact their individual state jurisdiction to review the current continuing education requirements for licensure renewal. Visit ASWB's website at www.aswb.org for more information. This educational offering is at the Intermediate level for social workers.

Social Workers - Florida: Vyne Education, LLC. is an approved provider with the Florida Board of Clinical Social Work, Marriage and Family Therapy and Mental Health Counseling Provider #50-466. This educational offering is approved for 6 continuing education credits.

Social Workers - California: The State of California, Board of Behavioral Sciences will recognize and accept continuing education programs that are sponsored by providers approved by the American Psychological Association and the ASWB. Full attendance at this course will qualify for 6.0 hours of continuing education credit.

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Other Professions
This educational offering qualifies for 6 continuing education hours as required by many national, state and local licensing boards and professional organizations. Save your course outline and certificate of completion, and contact your own board or organization for specific filing requirements.

Speech-Language Pathologists, Speech-Language Pathology Assistants, Occupational Therapists, Occupational Therapy Assistants, Physical Therapists, Physical Therapist Assistants, Nursing Home Administrators, Activity Professionals, Recreational Therapists, Registered Nurses, Rehabilitation Nurses, Directors of Nursing, Nurse Practitioners, Psychologists, Social Workers, Case Managers