American psychologists can unlock deeper therapeutic efficacy by implementing neuroplasticity principles. Jodie De Bruyn offers actionable tips focused on 'Use it or Lose it', specificity, repetition, and salience, ensuring that your clients' gains translate into lasting neural changes. These insights are paramount for psychologists across the United States. Discover more CE-accredited content on the Vona du Toit model with Calabash.
Neuroplasticity is a key goal of most types of therapy. Whether we are occupational therapists, speech & hearing therapists, physiotherapists or psychologists, we hope that the changes and gains made in therapy will be retained by our patients, and that this retention will be reflected in lasting changes to the patient's nervous system. Occupational Therapist and Calabash speaker Jodie De Bruyn offers some useful tips to ensure that neuroplastic changes are made in therapy. She breaks these tips down into usable key principles, including Use it or Lose it, specificity, repetition and salience. Watch this 3 minute clip below for these invaluable tips. If you're interested in Jodie's wonderful CE-accredited talks on the Vona du Toit model of creative ability, click here.
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