MGH SLP Adult Outpatient

Great article about "slow thinking". In this framework, it seems like a lot of the meta-cognitive CRT we do could be thought of as teaching our patients slow thinking...

T&T

"About the Course This course gives you easy access to the invaluable learning techniques used by experts in art, music, literature, math, science, sports, and many other disciplines. We'll learn about the how the brain uses two very different learning modes and how it encapsulates ("chunks") information. We'll also cover illusions of learning, memory techniques, dealing with procrastination, and best practices shown by research to be most effective in helping you master tough subjects."

Joyce shared this one with me. It has a ton of stress management and goal-directed executive functioning resources. It's awesome. :-) "The Institute of Lifestyle Medicine (ILM) was founded by Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital and Harvard Medical School to reduce the prevalence of lifestyle-related disease and mortality in our society through physician-directed interventions with patients."

Rapid serial visual presentation software. 

A student review of current computer-based CRT programs. This looks really useful!

"Effectiveness is goal orientation. This is picking something to do. This is doing right things-picking a goal and doing that goal," Hanselman says. "Efficiency is doing things in an economical way, process-oriented. "So phrased differently: Effectiveness is doing the right things, but efficiency is doing things right. That means effectiveness is picking a direction and efficiency is running really fast in that direction," he says. * Effectiveness is doing the right things. * Efficiency is doing things right.

Jane Topolovec-Vranic et al. Traumatic brain injury among men in an urban homeless shelter: observational study of rates and mechanisms of injury.

One of the things we do in our CRT approach is to set up deliberate practice for cognitive skills in real-world contexts. Using the strategies we teach are skills.

Here is a preview for CBT course I helped participate in at BU with Diane Parris and Dan Beck.