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Collaborative Therapeutic
Neuropsychological Assessment

November 22, 2012 – 9:00a – 12:30p

Tad Gorske, Ph.D.
Clinical Assistant Professor
Director, Outpatient Neuropsychology
Division of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology
University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA
“The presentation of brain facts about
specific damages is meaningless to
patients unless they can begin to
understand how the changes in their
brains are lived out in everyday
experiences and situations”


(Varela, 1991 as stated in McInerney
and Walker, 2002)
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What is Collaborative
Neuropsychology?
• What is traditional neuropsychology?
   – Typically follows a medically based/information
     gathering model.
   – Outsider viewing a passive “object”
   – Reductionist
   – Categories, diagnoses, constructs used to explain a
     client.
   – Focus on pathology
   – Tester as detached observer
   – Sense of secrecy
   – Specific focus on the brain-behavior relationship
What is Collaborative
Neuropsychology?
 – Emanates from “Third Force” Psychology
 – Relational encounter
 – Client as “co-evaluator”
 – Open sharing of results
 – Client viewed in context
 – Constructs serve to understand the client holistically.
 – Focus on strengths and weaknesses
 – Test scores, categories, and classifications help
   patients develop an understanding of their
   experience, not to define it (Fischer, 1970/1994)
 – Blending art and science into a “human science
   neuro-psychology” (Fischer, 2003; italics mine).
Holistic Neuropsychology
      Yehuda Ben-Yashay and Leonard
Diller
• Roots in Kurt Goldstein’s holistic views.
  – A holistic theory of the organism based
    Gestalt Theory
  – “We have said that life confronts us in living
    organisms. But as soon as we attempt to grasp them
    scientifically, we must take them apart, and this taking
    apart nets us a multitude of isolated facts which offer
    no direct clue to that which we experience directly in
    the living organism.” Kurt Goldstein, The Organism, p.
    7
Holistic Neuropsychological
Principles
• Empower patients and families to take an active
    role in the treatment process;
•   Believe people with neurological disabilities are
    more like people without neurological disabilities
    (ie. Go beyond the brain) ;
•   Convey honesty and caring in personal
    interactions to form a foundation for a strong
    therapeutic relationship;
•   Develop practical plans for rehabilitation; explain
    rehabilitation techniques in understandable
    language;
Holistic Neuropsychological Principles
• Help patients and families understand
    neurobehavioral sequelae of brain injury and
    recovery;
•   Recognize change is inevitable and help families
    cope with change;
•   Every patient is important, treat with respect;
•   Remember that patients and families have
    different perspectives regarding treatment
    approaches.
Why do we need collaborative
models?
 An identity crisis in
 neuropsychology
 (and psychology in
 general)?
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Neuropsychology Trends (Ruff,
2003).
• Period of Localization
• Period of Neurocognitive Evaluation

              Next Period??
Forces Influencing
                Neuropsychology


Technology
                                         Other
                                         Professionals




             Managed Care   Cultural Trends
Technology
Managed Care-Insurance
Cultural Trends

•   High Anxiety
•   Age of the Brain
•   Concussions
•   Aging of America
•   Mind-Body
Other Professionals

• Speech, OT, Psychiatry, Counselors,
  Social Workers
• Quick and dirty cognitive tests
• Neuropsychology is failing to distinguish
 itself due to:
  – Over-reliance on diagnosing brain behavior
    relationships
  – Narrow focus on psychometric approach
  – Uncertainty of roles in areas such as
    rehabilitation.
  – Lack of translation of test results into patient
    care
  – Lack of assessment advocacy
  (Gass and Brown, 1992; Nelson and Adams,
    1997; Goldstein, S. Personal Communication)
Rise of Forensic
Neuropsychology
• There is a greater presence of forensic
    neuropsychology topics in peer reviewed
    journals and neuropsychology meeting programs
    (Sweet, et al., 2002).
•   Consequently there is a greater proportion of
    topics related to legal proceedings and
    malingering.
•   Increasing emphasis on Symptom Validity
    Testing.
Seeking a Balance
                                     Forensic
                                     Malingering




Patient Care
Rehabilitation
Methods
Possibilities

• Focus on the utility of neuropsychological
  assessment
  – Ensuring relevance by tailoring assessment to
    treatment/rehabilitative needs and outcomes
  – Focus on the needs of the client/consumer
  – Closely link assessment – feedback – intervention.
  – Integrate treatment planning, monitoring progress,
    and outcomes
  (Groth-Marnat, G. (1999)).
Working Alliance
Importance of Working Alliance

• There are strong links between patient-
  therapist collaboration and goal
  consensus in psychotherapy outcomes
  (Shick Tryon and Winograd, 2011).
• Working alliance and collaboration in
  rehabilitation is viewed as important but
  less well studied.
Working Alliance in
Rehabilitation
• A positive relationship between working
    alliance and outcomes has been found.
    Working alliance defined as
• (a) the agreement between client and therapist
    on goals,
•   (b) their agreement on how to achieve these
    goals (common work on tasks) and
•   (c) the development of a personal bond between
    client and therapist. (Shönberger et al. 2006).
Working Alliance in
Rehabilitation
• A good working alliance can be created with
    both clients who experience many problems and
    clients who experience comparatively few
    problems, as long as they are aware of the
    consequences of their brain injury.
•   Therapist’s experience of a good working
    alliance was influenced by the client’s
    experience of success. (Shönberger, et al.,
    2006).
Working Alliance in
Rehabilitation
• Clients’ and therapists’ overall success ratings at
    program end were related to their emotional
    bond at program end.
•   Early-therapy compliance and the average
    amount of compliance are predictive of
    subjective improvement. (Shönberger, et al.,
    2006).
Working Alliance: Some
evidence
• Bieman-Copelan and Dywan (2000). Brain and Cognition, 44, 1-5.
• Behavioral therapy in context of a
    supportive/collaborative therapeutic alliance for
    anosognosia.
•   Collaborative negotiation and trusting
    therapeutic relationship for behavioral goal
    setting.
•   Results indicated a significant reduction in
    problematic behaviors despite no increase in
    insight or awareness of injury.
Pegg et al., 2005
• Evaluated the role of interpersonal relationship factors
    on patient outcomes with 28 patients with moderate to
    sever TBI admitted to an inpatient unit at a VAMC.
•   Personalized information-provision intervention.
•   Results:
     – Patients exerted greater effort in therapies
     – Patients increased satisfaction with rehabilitation
       treatment.
     – Significantly more improvement in cognitive FIM
       scores.
Interdisciplinary team working
alliance (Evans, et al., 2008).
• Importance of therapeutic alliance in post acute brain
    injury rehabilitation (PABIR).
•   Sherer et al., 2007 - poor working alliance was
    associated with high levels of family discord, greater
    discrepancy between family and clinician ratings of client
    functioning, and poor client participation in therapies.
•   Treatment team members attended in-services that
    emphasized motivational interviewing philosophy and
    techniques, building rapport, reflective listening, dealing
    with patient resistance, making behavioral changes,
    stages of change, dealing with challenging clients, and
    assessment and treatment issues with depressed and/or
    suicidal patients (pg. 332).
Interdisciplinary team working
alliance (Evans, et al., 2008).
• Treatment group had higher functional status and were
  more productive and had less dropouts, although the
  differences were not statistically significant.
Lane-Brown and Tate, 2010.
• Single case study that evaluated an
  intervention utilizing external
  compensation and motivational
  interviewing to initiate and sustain goal
  directed activity with a TBI patient.
• Demonstrated that treating specific and
  operationally defined goals through
  external compensation and motivational
  interviewing successfully decreased
  apathy.
Enhancing our patient care skills can create
a ripple effect with consumers, providers,
and public perception
Neuropsychology has the potential to be a lead
discipline in understanding human beings from a
holistic mind/body perspective
Holistic Neuropsychology in
        Rehabilitation
Comprehensive                 Recovery Challenges
Rehabilitation


•   Physical Therapy          •   Knowledge of deficits
•   Occupational Therapy      •   Adapting to deficits
•   Speech Therapy            •   Grieving and Coping
                                  (Denial, anger,
•   Medical Management            bargaining, depression,
•   Psychological/Neuropsyc       acceptance).
    hological                 •   Learning and re-learning
•   Emotional/Psychiatric     •   Integrating knowledge
    Management as                 into the self
    appropriate               •   Re-discovering meaning
•   Family Support                and a sense of purpose
•   Case Management
Existential Issues in
Neuropsychological Conditions
•   Awareness of change;
•   Emotions;
•   Struggle of acceptance;
•   Struggle to make sense and find meaning;
•   Struggle to reclaim/find a sense of self
“…But be that as it may, those of us who did make it
have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what
we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a
goodness and a meaning to this life.”
(Quote from the movie “Platoon”, 1986)
How traditional neuropsychological
assessment addresses these challenges

1.   Knowledge of deficits      1. Provides information on
2.   Adapting to deficits            cognitive functioning.
                                2.   Presents potential
3.   Grieving and Coping             ameliorative strategies.
     (Denial, anger,
                                3.   Does not directly
     bargaining, depression,         address.
     acceptance).
                                4.   Cognitive rehabilitation
4.   Learning and re-learning        and remediation.
5.   Integrating knowledge      5.   Presents one aspect of
     into the self                   the person (cognition).
6.   Re-discovering meaning     6.   Does not directly
                                     address.
How collaborative neuropsychological
assessment addresses these challenges
1.   Knowledge of deficits      1. Provides information on cognitive
                                     functioning and seeks individual
2.   Adapting to deficits            application.
                                2.   Presents potential ameliorative
3.   Grieving and Coping             strategies and seeks out the
     (Denial, anger,                 individuals own resources for
                                     change.
     bargaining, depression,    3.   Address a person’s experience
     acceptance).                    and reactions to information
                                     provided; balances education and
4.   Learning and re-learning        the I-Thou interaction.
5.   Integrating knowledge      4.   Cognitive rehabilitation and
                                     remediation and works to
     into the self                   motivate internalization.
6.   Re-discovering meaning     5.   Presents one aspect of the
                                     person (cognition) and considers
                                     it within the context of the whole
                                     person.
                                6.   Looks toward the future and what
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History of Neuropsychological
  Testing as a Therapeutic
         Intervention
Luria’s Neuropsychological
 Investigation (LNI)
• Loose conceptual basis, not an actual precursor.
• A qualitative and flexible interviewing method for diagnosing brain
  lesions.
• The value of LNI:
   – Provides a thorough individualized neuropsychological assessment
      in which the cognitive functions and psychological responses of the
      individual can be ascertained.
   – Provides the opportunity to identify strengths and deficits.
   – LNI principles can be implemented throughout the rehabilitation
      process which include
        • Hypothesis testing
        • A collaborative working relationship with the patient’
• Feedback to enhance awareness.
Christensen, Anne-Lise (1975); Christensen, A.L. and
  Caetano, C. (1999)
Neuropsychological Test
Feedback Research
• No empirical studies but some recommendations
• Neuropsychological test feedback provides
    useful information about cognitive strengths and
    weaknesses,
•   Clients find the information useful,
•   Results apply to clients everyday life and
    concerns
•   Facilitates the development of useful and
    applicable interventions
(Gass & Brown, 1992; Pope, 1992; Crosson, 2000; Bennet-Levy et al.,
    1994).
Recommended method for
providing information (Gass & Brown, 1992)
1. Review the purpose of testing in plain,
     simple language
2.   Tests are “behavior samples” of
     functional domains
3.   Explain in terms of behavioral functioning
4.   Summarize strengths and weaknesses
5.   Address diagnostic issues
6.   Make recommendations
Limited empirical evidence

• Case Studies (Malla et al., 1997; Rose,
  1998)
• Conceptual articles (Allen et al., 1986)
• Provision of medical information which
  included neuropsychological tests (Pegg,
  Auerbach, Seel, Buenaver, Kiesler, and
  Plybon, 2005).
Background of Psychological Testing as a
        Therapeutic Intervention
Therapeutic/Individualized
 Models of Assessment
Collaborative Individualized
Assessment (Fischer, 1994)
• Based on phenomenological psychology.
• Assessor works collaboratively to
  understand a client’s unique worldview
• Tests, scores, categories, and
  classifications serve to develop a
  hermeneutic understanding of the person.
• Reflects a “human-science psychology”.
Therapeutic Assessment (Finn,
1992; 1997)
• Psychological assessment as a therapeutic
  intervention,
• Tester is an active participant
• Rooted in humanistic psychology
• Influenced by collaborative assessment
The Next Generation of Client
    Centered Feedback

  Motivational Interviewing
Motivational Interviewing Principles
(Miller and Rollnick, 2002)
• A method of dialogue designed to
  enhance client’s intrinsic motivation to
  make changes in behavior.
• Heavily rooted in Roger’s Client Centered
  Therapy.
• Originally developed with alcoholics but
  expanded to drug addiction and health
  behavior change.
• Strongly based on the Rogerian approach
• Non-directive/directive intervention
• Empathy and unconditional regard are the
  crux of MI
• Exploring and resolving ambivalence
  about making changes is a key goal
• Works to develop a discrepancy between
  real and ideal self (values and behavior;
  who a client is versus who they want to
  be).
• Associated with the stages of change.
MI Method for Giving Feedback

• Elicit – Provide – Elicit
• Using OARS
  –   Open ended questions
  –   Affirmations
  –   Reflections
  –   Summarizations
• Goal is to help clients work through and
  resolve ambivalence in order to move
  through the stages of change.
The NAFI

• Origins
    – Neuropsychological Testing
    – Personal Feedback Report (Project MATCH,
      Dual Diagnosis Adherence Strategies, WPIC)
    – Anecdotal Observations
•   Pilot Study
•   Development of the Feedback Report
•   NIDA funded study 2004 – 2008.
Neuropsych Feedback
               Recommendations




                    NAFI
Motivational
Interviewing
                                     Collaborative/
                                     Therapeutic
                                     Assessment
Pilot Study Results
                  Adherence Rates
           p = .042, cohen's d = .78 (.02-1.55)
                NAFI (n = 14); TAU (n = 14)

 100
  90
  80       71%
  70
  60
  50                           48%
   40
   30
   20
   10
    0
                                              S1
        NAFI
                            TAU
Pilot Study Results: D&A Use
NAFI = 6; TAU = 5
                      30 Day Alcohol Use

10
 9
 8
 7             7.13
 6
               5.46                              NAFI
 5
                                                 TAU
 4
                                           3.4
 3
 2
 1
 0                                         0
          Baseline                     30 Day
Pilot Study Results: D&A Use

                   30 Day Drug Use

7

6

5
            4.73
4                                            NAFI
            3.43
3                                            TAU

2

1
                                     0.66
                                      0.40
0
       Baseline                  30 Day
Pilot Study Results: Depression
NAFI = 6; TAU = 5
                      30 Day Depression
                          HRSD-25

  25
               22.2
  20           21.2                       20.21


  15                                              NAFI
                                                  TAU
                                          11.4
  10


   5


   0
          Baseline                  30 Day
Patient Responses
• “The assessment was helpful to me. I learned a lot about myself…I
   would have done it without being paid.”

• “Allowed me to see why I may be reluctant to participate in groups.”

• “Helped me narrow in on specific steps I need to take with my
   therapist re: depression and addiction. Identified couple things we
   can work on.”

• “I am so pleased that I participated in the study. It was right on. M-
   allowed me to share during the process, which really assisted with
   my overall understanding of the feedback.”
• First presentation at The Society for
 Personality Assessment, Spring 2006.
  –   Diane Engelman, Ph.D.
  –   Steven R. Smith, Ph.D.
  –   Tad Gorske, Ph.D.
Collaborative Therapeutic
Neuropsychological Assessment, 2009.
Methods of Collaborative
Neuropsychology
• Demystify the neuropsychological
 assessment process: Provide feedback report;
 explain session purpose; facilitate collaboration and
 empathic understanding
• Answer what the individual wants to know
  (If you can).
• Explain how strengths and weaknesses
  are determined.
• Ensure an understanding of the
  information provided.
Methods of Collaborative
Neuropsychology
• Ensure the information relates to the
    persons experience;
                  Or if it doesn’t
•   Explore the discrepancy.
•   Summarize what has been discussed.
•   Make suggestions
•   Look to the future.
CTNA

• The spirit of the CTNA lies in Collaborative
 and Therapeutic Assessment Models
  – Open sharing; explore results contextually;
    use results to facilitate empathic
    understanding
• The framework for conducting the CTNA is
  drawn from MI.
• The CTNA adopts and adapts the MI
  Personalized Feedback Report
CTNA Feedback Session

Two primary components

1. Provide information from
   neuropsychological test results
2. Interact with clients in a collaborative
   manner consistent with TA and MI.
CTNA Personalized Feedback
1. Introduction
  •     Provide feedback report; explain session purpose;
        facilitate collaboration and empathic understanding
1. Develop Questions
  •     Develop 2 or 3 well defined questions the client
        hopes the results can answer
1. Explain how strengths and weaknesses are
      determined
  •     Percentiles, determine criteria for strength or
        weakness
CTNA Personalized Feedback
4. Feedback about strengths and
      weaknesses
  •    Elicit: What skills did the client
       use to complete the test.
  •    Provide: Therapist provides
       information on the cognitive skill
       test(s) examine.
  •    Elicit: Therapist elicits reactions
       from the clients and applies results
       to their real life.
CTNA Personalized Feedback

5. Summarize results and provide
   recommendations
     Summary and key question
     Ask permission to provide recommendations
     Make recommendations
Clinical Applications of CTNA

1. Brain Injury Education and Rehabilitation
2. Lifestyle change counseling
3. Psychological conditions
Cautionary Notes
1. Profound cognitive impairment (ie.
   dementia)
2. Poor effort (forensic, malingering,
   disability, etc.)
Future Implications
• Clinical: A high degree of utility for consultation,
    initiating therapy, working with “sticking points” in
    therapy, rehabilitation planning.
•   Teaching:        Developing students into
    “human-science” practitioners, researchers, and
    teachers.
•   Research:        Learn outcomes, factors
    influencing effectiveness, manual development.
Case Examples
Case #1: Multiple Concussions
•   Caucasian female, early 20’s;
•   Recent very mild hit to the head;
•   Increase in PCS: headache, mental fogginess, dizziness,
    nausea, balance problems, fatigue, drowsiness, sensitivity to light and
    noise, mood changes, feeling slowed down, difficulty concentrating, difficulty
    remembering, and visual problems

• Hx of two prior concussions over 5 year
  span since her teen years.
• Doctor told her she had a “catastrophic
  reaction.”
Case #1: Multiple Concussions
•   No significant medical issues
•   Extensive psychiatric hx:
•   Mental Status
    –   MMSE = 30
    –   Clock drawing was normal
    –   BDI = 22
    –   BAI = 26
Vocabulary                13           84

Matrix Reasoning          15           95


Digits Forward            12           75
Digits Backward           13           84
Letter Number
Sequencing                12           75
Trailmaking A      15 sec., 0 errors   95
Digit Symbol –           12            75
Coding
CVLT-II                 Trial 1 = 7                 32
                       Trial 5 = 16                 84
                     Total Trials = 71              98
                  Learning Slope = 1.8              70
               Short Delay Free Recall = 16         94
               Long Delay Free Recall = 16          94
                     Retention = 0%                 50
                  Recognition Hits = 16             50
                    Discrimination = 4              84




Rey Complex Figure     Copy = 35/36           Average
                     Immediate = 26/36          62
                       Delay = 27/36            69
                      Recognition = 20          14
COWA                  FAS = 55                 82
                     Animal = 28               79
Boston Naming           57/60                  58
Test
Trailmaking B          41 sec., 1 error          87
Stroop C/W Test         Word = 100               45
                          Color = 81             58
                      Color Word = 52            79
                      Interference = 7           77
WCST-64                Categories = 5          Average
                      Total Errors = 6           94
                  Perseverative Errors = 5       47
                  Trials to first category =   Average
                               10
Main themes in CTNA session

• Discrepancy between how she felt vs
  objective evidence;
• Negative thoughts and beliefs about
  herself and her capabilities;
• Underlying perfectionism;
• After session became more open to
  considering psychological/emotional vs
  brain injury as causing her distress.
• My thanks to all the participants, Dr. Fiona
 Bardenhagen and the Australian
 Psychological Society for inviting me to your
 conference.
My contact information
  Tad T. Gorske, Ph.D
  Clinical Assistant Professor
  Division of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology
  UPMC Mercy
  1400 Locust Street, Suite G138
  Pittsburgh, PA USA 15219
  Gorskett@upmc. edu

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  • 1. Collaborative Therapeutic Neuropsychological Assessment November 22, 2012 – 9:00a – 12:30p Tad Gorske, Ph.D. Clinical Assistant Professor Director, Outpatient Neuropsychology Division of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, USA
  • 2. “The presentation of brain facts about specific damages is meaningless to patients unless they can begin to understand how the changes in their brains are lived out in everyday experiences and situations” (Varela, 1991 as stated in McInerney and Walker, 2002)
  • 7. What is Collaborative Neuropsychology? • What is traditional neuropsychology? – Typically follows a medically based/information gathering model. – Outsider viewing a passive “object” – Reductionist – Categories, diagnoses, constructs used to explain a client. – Focus on pathology – Tester as detached observer – Sense of secrecy – Specific focus on the brain-behavior relationship
  • 8. What is Collaborative Neuropsychology? – Emanates from “Third Force” Psychology – Relational encounter – Client as “co-evaluator” – Open sharing of results – Client viewed in context – Constructs serve to understand the client holistically. – Focus on strengths and weaknesses – Test scores, categories, and classifications help patients develop an understanding of their experience, not to define it (Fischer, 1970/1994) – Blending art and science into a “human science neuro-psychology” (Fischer, 2003; italics mine).
  • 9. Holistic Neuropsychology Yehuda Ben-Yashay and Leonard Diller • Roots in Kurt Goldstein’s holistic views. – A holistic theory of the organism based Gestalt Theory – “We have said that life confronts us in living organisms. But as soon as we attempt to grasp them scientifically, we must take them apart, and this taking apart nets us a multitude of isolated facts which offer no direct clue to that which we experience directly in the living organism.” Kurt Goldstein, The Organism, p. 7
  • 10. Holistic Neuropsychological Principles • Empower patients and families to take an active role in the treatment process; • Believe people with neurological disabilities are more like people without neurological disabilities (ie. Go beyond the brain) ; • Convey honesty and caring in personal interactions to form a foundation for a strong therapeutic relationship; • Develop practical plans for rehabilitation; explain rehabilitation techniques in understandable language;
  • 11. Holistic Neuropsychological Principles • Help patients and families understand neurobehavioral sequelae of brain injury and recovery; • Recognize change is inevitable and help families cope with change; • Every patient is important, treat with respect; • Remember that patients and families have different perspectives regarding treatment approaches.
  • 12. Why do we need collaborative models? An identity crisis in neuropsychology (and psychology in general)?
  • 14. Harvard creates cyborg flesh that’s half man, half machine By Sebastian Anthony on August 29, 2012                                                                                                                                                                                                                        
  • 15. Neuropsychology Trends (Ruff, 2003). • Period of Localization • Period of Neurocognitive Evaluation Next Period??
  • 16. Forces Influencing Neuropsychology Technology Other Professionals Managed Care Cultural Trends
  • 19. Cultural Trends • High Anxiety • Age of the Brain • Concussions • Aging of America • Mind-Body
  • 20. Other Professionals • Speech, OT, Psychiatry, Counselors, Social Workers • Quick and dirty cognitive tests
  • 21. • Neuropsychology is failing to distinguish itself due to: – Over-reliance on diagnosing brain behavior relationships – Narrow focus on psychometric approach – Uncertainty of roles in areas such as rehabilitation. – Lack of translation of test results into patient care – Lack of assessment advocacy (Gass and Brown, 1992; Nelson and Adams, 1997; Goldstein, S. Personal Communication)
  • 22. Rise of Forensic Neuropsychology • There is a greater presence of forensic neuropsychology topics in peer reviewed journals and neuropsychology meeting programs (Sweet, et al., 2002). • Consequently there is a greater proportion of topics related to legal proceedings and malingering. • Increasing emphasis on Symptom Validity Testing.
  • 23. Seeking a Balance Forensic Malingering Patient Care Rehabilitation Methods
  • 24. Possibilities • Focus on the utility of neuropsychological assessment – Ensuring relevance by tailoring assessment to treatment/rehabilitative needs and outcomes – Focus on the needs of the client/consumer – Closely link assessment – feedback – intervention. – Integrate treatment planning, monitoring progress, and outcomes (Groth-Marnat, G. (1999)).
  • 26. Importance of Working Alliance • There are strong links between patient- therapist collaboration and goal consensus in psychotherapy outcomes (Shick Tryon and Winograd, 2011). • Working alliance and collaboration in rehabilitation is viewed as important but less well studied.
  • 27. Working Alliance in Rehabilitation • A positive relationship between working alliance and outcomes has been found. Working alliance defined as • (a) the agreement between client and therapist on goals, • (b) their agreement on how to achieve these goals (common work on tasks) and • (c) the development of a personal bond between client and therapist. (Shönberger et al. 2006).
  • 28. Working Alliance in Rehabilitation • A good working alliance can be created with both clients who experience many problems and clients who experience comparatively few problems, as long as they are aware of the consequences of their brain injury. • Therapist’s experience of a good working alliance was influenced by the client’s experience of success. (Shönberger, et al., 2006).
  • 29. Working Alliance in Rehabilitation • Clients’ and therapists’ overall success ratings at program end were related to their emotional bond at program end. • Early-therapy compliance and the average amount of compliance are predictive of subjective improvement. (Shönberger, et al., 2006).
  • 30. Working Alliance: Some evidence • Bieman-Copelan and Dywan (2000). Brain and Cognition, 44, 1-5. • Behavioral therapy in context of a supportive/collaborative therapeutic alliance for anosognosia. • Collaborative negotiation and trusting therapeutic relationship for behavioral goal setting. • Results indicated a significant reduction in problematic behaviors despite no increase in insight or awareness of injury.
  • 31. Pegg et al., 2005 • Evaluated the role of interpersonal relationship factors on patient outcomes with 28 patients with moderate to sever TBI admitted to an inpatient unit at a VAMC. • Personalized information-provision intervention. • Results: – Patients exerted greater effort in therapies – Patients increased satisfaction with rehabilitation treatment. – Significantly more improvement in cognitive FIM scores.
  • 32. Interdisciplinary team working alliance (Evans, et al., 2008). • Importance of therapeutic alliance in post acute brain injury rehabilitation (PABIR). • Sherer et al., 2007 - poor working alliance was associated with high levels of family discord, greater discrepancy between family and clinician ratings of client functioning, and poor client participation in therapies. • Treatment team members attended in-services that emphasized motivational interviewing philosophy and techniques, building rapport, reflective listening, dealing with patient resistance, making behavioral changes, stages of change, dealing with challenging clients, and assessment and treatment issues with depressed and/or suicidal patients (pg. 332).
  • 33. Interdisciplinary team working alliance (Evans, et al., 2008). • Treatment group had higher functional status and were more productive and had less dropouts, although the differences were not statistically significant.
  • 34. Lane-Brown and Tate, 2010. • Single case study that evaluated an intervention utilizing external compensation and motivational interviewing to initiate and sustain goal directed activity with a TBI patient. • Demonstrated that treating specific and operationally defined goals through external compensation and motivational interviewing successfully decreased apathy.
  • 35. Enhancing our patient care skills can create a ripple effect with consumers, providers, and public perception
  • 36. Neuropsychology has the potential to be a lead discipline in understanding human beings from a holistic mind/body perspective
  • 37. Holistic Neuropsychology in Rehabilitation
  • 38. Comprehensive Recovery Challenges Rehabilitation • Physical Therapy • Knowledge of deficits • Occupational Therapy • Adapting to deficits • Speech Therapy • Grieving and Coping (Denial, anger, • Medical Management bargaining, depression, • Psychological/Neuropsyc acceptance). hological • Learning and re-learning • Emotional/Psychiatric • Integrating knowledge Management as into the self appropriate • Re-discovering meaning • Family Support and a sense of purpose • Case Management
  • 39. Existential Issues in Neuropsychological Conditions • Awareness of change; • Emotions; • Struggle of acceptance; • Struggle to make sense and find meaning; • Struggle to reclaim/find a sense of self
  • 40. “…But be that as it may, those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to others what we know, and to try with what's left of our lives to find a goodness and a meaning to this life.” (Quote from the movie “Platoon”, 1986)
  • 41. How traditional neuropsychological assessment addresses these challenges 1. Knowledge of deficits 1. Provides information on 2. Adapting to deficits cognitive functioning. 2. Presents potential 3. Grieving and Coping ameliorative strategies. (Denial, anger, 3. Does not directly bargaining, depression, address. acceptance). 4. Cognitive rehabilitation 4. Learning and re-learning and remediation. 5. Integrating knowledge 5. Presents one aspect of into the self the person (cognition). 6. Re-discovering meaning 6. Does not directly address.
  • 42. How collaborative neuropsychological assessment addresses these challenges 1. Knowledge of deficits 1. Provides information on cognitive functioning and seeks individual 2. Adapting to deficits application. 2. Presents potential ameliorative 3. Grieving and Coping strategies and seeks out the (Denial, anger, individuals own resources for change. bargaining, depression, 3. Address a person’s experience acceptance). and reactions to information provided; balances education and 4. Learning and re-learning the I-Thou interaction. 5. Integrating knowledge 4. Cognitive rehabilitation and remediation and works to into the self motivate internalization. 6. Re-discovering meaning 5. Presents one aspect of the person (cognition) and considers it within the context of the whole person. 6. Looks toward the future and what
  • 45. History of Neuropsychological Testing as a Therapeutic Intervention
  • 46. Luria’s Neuropsychological Investigation (LNI) • Loose conceptual basis, not an actual precursor. • A qualitative and flexible interviewing method for diagnosing brain lesions. • The value of LNI: – Provides a thorough individualized neuropsychological assessment in which the cognitive functions and psychological responses of the individual can be ascertained. – Provides the opportunity to identify strengths and deficits. – LNI principles can be implemented throughout the rehabilitation process which include • Hypothesis testing • A collaborative working relationship with the patient’ • Feedback to enhance awareness. Christensen, Anne-Lise (1975); Christensen, A.L. and Caetano, C. (1999)
  • 47. Neuropsychological Test Feedback Research • No empirical studies but some recommendations • Neuropsychological test feedback provides useful information about cognitive strengths and weaknesses, • Clients find the information useful, • Results apply to clients everyday life and concerns • Facilitates the development of useful and applicable interventions (Gass & Brown, 1992; Pope, 1992; Crosson, 2000; Bennet-Levy et al., 1994).
  • 48. Recommended method for providing information (Gass & Brown, 1992) 1. Review the purpose of testing in plain, simple language 2. Tests are “behavior samples” of functional domains 3. Explain in terms of behavioral functioning 4. Summarize strengths and weaknesses 5. Address diagnostic issues 6. Make recommendations
  • 49. Limited empirical evidence • Case Studies (Malla et al., 1997; Rose, 1998) • Conceptual articles (Allen et al., 1986) • Provision of medical information which included neuropsychological tests (Pegg, Auerbach, Seel, Buenaver, Kiesler, and Plybon, 2005).
  • 50. Background of Psychological Testing as a Therapeutic Intervention
  • 52. Collaborative Individualized Assessment (Fischer, 1994) • Based on phenomenological psychology. • Assessor works collaboratively to understand a client’s unique worldview • Tests, scores, categories, and classifications serve to develop a hermeneutic understanding of the person. • Reflects a “human-science psychology”.
  • 53. Therapeutic Assessment (Finn, 1992; 1997) • Psychological assessment as a therapeutic intervention, • Tester is an active participant • Rooted in humanistic psychology • Influenced by collaborative assessment
  • 54. The Next Generation of Client Centered Feedback Motivational Interviewing
  • 55. Motivational Interviewing Principles (Miller and Rollnick, 2002) • A method of dialogue designed to enhance client’s intrinsic motivation to make changes in behavior. • Heavily rooted in Roger’s Client Centered Therapy. • Originally developed with alcoholics but expanded to drug addiction and health behavior change.
  • 56. • Strongly based on the Rogerian approach • Non-directive/directive intervention • Empathy and unconditional regard are the crux of MI • Exploring and resolving ambivalence about making changes is a key goal • Works to develop a discrepancy between real and ideal self (values and behavior; who a client is versus who they want to be). • Associated with the stages of change.
  • 57. MI Method for Giving Feedback • Elicit – Provide – Elicit • Using OARS – Open ended questions – Affirmations – Reflections – Summarizations • Goal is to help clients work through and resolve ambivalence in order to move through the stages of change.
  • 58. The NAFI • Origins – Neuropsychological Testing – Personal Feedback Report (Project MATCH, Dual Diagnosis Adherence Strategies, WPIC) – Anecdotal Observations • Pilot Study • Development of the Feedback Report • NIDA funded study 2004 – 2008.
  • 59. Neuropsych Feedback Recommendations NAFI Motivational Interviewing Collaborative/ Therapeutic Assessment
  • 60. Pilot Study Results Adherence Rates p = .042, cohen's d = .78 (.02-1.55) NAFI (n = 14); TAU (n = 14) 100 90 80 71% 70 60 50 48% 40 30 20 10 0 S1 NAFI TAU
  • 61. Pilot Study Results: D&A Use NAFI = 6; TAU = 5 30 Day Alcohol Use 10 9 8 7 7.13 6 5.46 NAFI 5 TAU 4 3.4 3 2 1 0 0 Baseline 30 Day
  • 62. Pilot Study Results: D&A Use 30 Day Drug Use 7 6 5 4.73 4 NAFI 3.43 3 TAU 2 1 0.66 0.40 0 Baseline 30 Day
  • 63. Pilot Study Results: Depression NAFI = 6; TAU = 5 30 Day Depression HRSD-25 25 22.2 20 21.2 20.21 15 NAFI TAU 11.4 10 5 0 Baseline 30 Day
  • 64. Patient Responses • “The assessment was helpful to me. I learned a lot about myself…I would have done it without being paid.” • “Allowed me to see why I may be reluctant to participate in groups.” • “Helped me narrow in on specific steps I need to take with my therapist re: depression and addiction. Identified couple things we can work on.” • “I am so pleased that I participated in the study. It was right on. M- allowed me to share during the process, which really assisted with my overall understanding of the feedback.”
  • 65. • First presentation at The Society for Personality Assessment, Spring 2006. – Diane Engelman, Ph.D. – Steven R. Smith, Ph.D. – Tad Gorske, Ph.D.
  • 67. Methods of Collaborative Neuropsychology • Demystify the neuropsychological assessment process: Provide feedback report; explain session purpose; facilitate collaboration and empathic understanding • Answer what the individual wants to know (If you can). • Explain how strengths and weaknesses are determined. • Ensure an understanding of the information provided.
  • 68. Methods of Collaborative Neuropsychology • Ensure the information relates to the persons experience; Or if it doesn’t • Explore the discrepancy. • Summarize what has been discussed. • Make suggestions • Look to the future.
  • 69. CTNA • The spirit of the CTNA lies in Collaborative and Therapeutic Assessment Models – Open sharing; explore results contextually; use results to facilitate empathic understanding • The framework for conducting the CTNA is drawn from MI. • The CTNA adopts and adapts the MI Personalized Feedback Report
  • 70. CTNA Feedback Session Two primary components 1. Provide information from neuropsychological test results 2. Interact with clients in a collaborative manner consistent with TA and MI.
  • 71. CTNA Personalized Feedback 1. Introduction • Provide feedback report; explain session purpose; facilitate collaboration and empathic understanding 1. Develop Questions • Develop 2 or 3 well defined questions the client hopes the results can answer 1. Explain how strengths and weaknesses are determined • Percentiles, determine criteria for strength or weakness
  • 72. CTNA Personalized Feedback 4. Feedback about strengths and weaknesses • Elicit: What skills did the client use to complete the test. • Provide: Therapist provides information on the cognitive skill test(s) examine. • Elicit: Therapist elicits reactions from the clients and applies results to their real life.
  • 73. CTNA Personalized Feedback 5. Summarize results and provide recommendations  Summary and key question  Ask permission to provide recommendations  Make recommendations
  • 74. Clinical Applications of CTNA 1. Brain Injury Education and Rehabilitation 2. Lifestyle change counseling 3. Psychological conditions Cautionary Notes 1. Profound cognitive impairment (ie. dementia) 2. Poor effort (forensic, malingering, disability, etc.)
  • 75. Future Implications • Clinical: A high degree of utility for consultation, initiating therapy, working with “sticking points” in therapy, rehabilitation planning. • Teaching: Developing students into “human-science” practitioners, researchers, and teachers. • Research: Learn outcomes, factors influencing effectiveness, manual development.
  • 77. Case #1: Multiple Concussions • Caucasian female, early 20’s; • Recent very mild hit to the head; • Increase in PCS: headache, mental fogginess, dizziness, nausea, balance problems, fatigue, drowsiness, sensitivity to light and noise, mood changes, feeling slowed down, difficulty concentrating, difficulty remembering, and visual problems • Hx of two prior concussions over 5 year span since her teen years. • Doctor told her she had a “catastrophic reaction.”
  • 78. Case #1: Multiple Concussions • No significant medical issues • Extensive psychiatric hx: • Mental Status – MMSE = 30 – Clock drawing was normal – BDI = 22 – BAI = 26
  • 79. Vocabulary 13 84 Matrix Reasoning 15 95 Digits Forward 12 75 Digits Backward 13 84 Letter Number Sequencing 12 75 Trailmaking A 15 sec., 0 errors 95 Digit Symbol – 12 75 Coding
  • 80. CVLT-II Trial 1 = 7 32 Trial 5 = 16 84 Total Trials = 71 98 Learning Slope = 1.8 70 Short Delay Free Recall = 16 94 Long Delay Free Recall = 16 94 Retention = 0% 50 Recognition Hits = 16 50 Discrimination = 4 84 Rey Complex Figure Copy = 35/36 Average Immediate = 26/36 62 Delay = 27/36 69 Recognition = 20 14
  • 81. COWA FAS = 55 82 Animal = 28 79 Boston Naming 57/60 58 Test Trailmaking B 41 sec., 1 error 87 Stroop C/W Test Word = 100 45 Color = 81 58 Color Word = 52 79 Interference = 7 77 WCST-64 Categories = 5 Average Total Errors = 6 94 Perseverative Errors = 5 47 Trials to first category = Average 10
  • 82. Main themes in CTNA session • Discrepancy between how she felt vs objective evidence; • Negative thoughts and beliefs about herself and her capabilities; • Underlying perfectionism; • After session became more open to considering psychological/emotional vs brain injury as causing her distress.
  • 83. • My thanks to all the participants, Dr. Fiona Bardenhagen and the Australian Psychological Society for inviting me to your conference. My contact information Tad T. Gorske, Ph.D Clinical Assistant Professor Division of Neuropsychology and Rehabilitation Psychology UPMC Mercy 1400 Locust Street, Suite G138 Pittsburgh, PA USA 15219 Gorskett@upmc. edu