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ICRP-I provides up-to-date and cutting edge information on how to identify and treat brain injuries for laypeople, frontline staff, and professionals through resources, summaries, in-depth training, workbooks, access to community networks, consultation, supervision, blogs, and podcasts. Whether you are seeking new knowledge or skills or increasing your current knowledge or skills we offer educational materials, including virtual classes, in person/onsite training, and consultation in integrative cognitive rehabilitation psychotherapy. Our educational materials and courses are geared to multiple levels of knowledge, skills, and training. For professionals we offer basic, intermediate, advanced, and expert training levels.
In addition we support the Integrative Rehabilitation Psychotherapy for Brain Injury ECHO, which is in its eight year! (add link here).
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The Full Story
The integrative cognitive rehabilitation psychotherapy model (ICRP) was developed out of the necessity to treat adolescents who suffered severe brain injuries and experienced depression, anxiety, grief, medical issues, and substance abuse post injury. Once discharged from inpatient rehabilitation care it was difficult to find psychotherapy services in the community to manage the depression and substance use issues and in turn to get better. There were either no treatment available, poor engagement in traditional therapy, or a refusal to provide traditional therapies given the presence of a brain injury
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Coming from a clinical psychology background and retraining as a rehabilitation psychologist, the necessity to blend clinical psychology with rehabilitation psychology skills was self-evident. Therapists could be provided a holistic treatment model to apply several types of therapy simultaneously.
Dr. Linda Laatsch's developmental metacognitive approach (DMA) was an excellent foundation to base an integrative model on, focusing on the developmental hierarchy of cognitive skills and applying evidenced based interventions to rehabilitate or compensate for impaired skills. Adapting traditional models of care for psychological and substance use issues allowed for a holistic approach, integrating the complexity of loss of identity through loss of cognitive skills with the basic tenets of psychotherapy for psychosocial and substance use issues. Adjusting goals and objectives and interventions to the patient's readiness to change and the stage of recovery allowed for the right dose, at the right amount and the right time.
The development of the ICRP model resulted in the creation of the ICRP-ECHO training and numerous other trainings opportunities. Along the way an awareness grew that others were using similar strategies and techniques and it would be beneficial to collaborate on developing the ICRP model. After several years of teaching, collaborating, and developing the model for professionals, paraprofessionals, and other groups the ICRP-I was founded.
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Our mission is to provide laypeople, patients, family members, community organizations, paraprofessionals, first responders, healthcare professionals easy access to information, resources, consultation, and training on the identification and treatment of brain injury using the integrative cognitive rehabilitation psychotherapy model to improve engagement in treatment by patients with brain injury and co-occurring issues and in turn outcome.
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Educational resources are available to clinicians, researchers, and patients, families, and communities to promote quality of life, and cognitive and emotional health to even the most complex and difficult brain injury cases.
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We strive to empower everyone with the knowledge that brain injuries are treatable and it takes a team to maximize outcome, and of the tools to create the best care possible to maximize outcome.
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