Psychotherapy and Aphasia: Interventions for Emotional Wellbeing and Relationships is an exciting international collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and family therapists. People with aphasia and other acquired communication disorders can face significant challenges accessing emotional support. Many traditional forms of psychotherapy are based on spoken language, rendering it inaccessible for many people with communication disorders. But the book details a range of techniques that move away from reliance on spoken language, including total communication strategies, the use of meaningful objects, experiential process, group experience and mind-body practices.
Key Features
- International collaboration among clinical neuropsychologists, speech and language therapists and family therapists.
- Details a range of innovative psychotherapeutic interventions for people with communication disorders and their families.
- Includes contributions from therapeutic models like speech and language therapy, family therapy, clinical neuropsychology, cognitive-behavioural, systemic, narrative and mind-body traditions.
- Features clinical examples covering a range of stroke and neurology service contexts.
Additional Information
It is the only book aimed at both speech and language therapists and psychotherapists, and will open up new pathways to support. It therefore provides clinicians with a wide-range of practical and theoretical tools to explore when supporting survivors who experience psychological distress during rehabilitation.
