The study of psychological and pedagogical conditions, the formation professionally significant qualities future speech therapist, is associated with intonational semantic skills, which affects training specialists. presented forms, methods organizing educational process on example specific subjects plan, made it possible to increase competence students. Specially selected exercises during "Ped...

Immediacy was examined in a 17-session case of brief therapy with a bright, articulate, inner-city, African American female client seeing an interpersonally oriented, White, male therapist. The main types of therapist immediacy were reinforcing the client for in-session behavior, inviting the client to collaborate, inquiring about client reactions to therapy, and reminding the client that it wa...

For counseling settings, research suggests that softness, personalization, and order might affect the experience and the perceived expertness, trustworthiness, and social attractiveness of the therapist. This article discusses exploratory studies on college students' perception of the counseling office environment and whether the likely client experience was associated with the softness/persona...

The authors examined immediacy (i.e., discussions about the here-and-now therapeutic relationship) in a 12-session case of individual interpersonal psychotherapy. Therapist immediacy during immediacy events most often focused on parallels between external relationships and the therapy relationship, encouraging expression of immediate feelings, processing termination, therapist expressing disapp...

1) Master’s Degree in Infectology and Tropical Medicine by the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais. Speech Therapist. Sponsored by CNPq. Ph.D. Mode Sandwith 2) PhD in Biophysics and concentration area in Medical Physics and Otoneurology, Leiden University, The Netherlands. Professor of Otoneurology, Departament of Otorhinolaryngology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands. 3) PhD in Infect...

Cognitive rehabilitation is a therapeutic approach to improve cognitive functioning after central nervous system insult. It includes an assembly of therapy methods that retrain or alleviate problems caused by deficits in attention, visual processing, language, memory, reasoning, problem solving, and executive functions. Cognitive rehabilitation consists of tasks designed to reinforce or reestab...

In this paper, we present a pluridisciplinary approach in order to model the behavior of an embodied conversational agent that expresses emotional and social interactions. We present our methodology to reproduce credible social interactions. Particularly, we discuss the role of the context, the culture, and the emotions in the model of the management of speech acts. This model has been implemen...

Following Wepman (1953), the process of recovery from aphasia is seen as involving stimulation, motivation, and facilitation. The most adequate studies of aphasia therapy outcome focus on facilitation to the virtual exclusion of stimulation and motivation, although clinical experience suggests their importance. Motivation includes both the subjective and experiential aspects of the patient's re...

Motivational Interviewing (MI) is an efficacious treatment for substance use disorders and other problem behaviors (Lundahl and Burke, 2009). However, little is known about the specific mechanisms that drive therapeutic change. A growing body of research has focused on coding within-session language to better understand how therapist and patient language mutually influence each other and predic...

Hippotherapy is a specialized therapy treatment strategy that uses the horse’s movement to influence the patient/client in a various number of ways. 1 Hippo is derived from the Greek word “hippos” which means horse. Hippotherapy is conducted by a physical therapist, occupational therapist, or speech language pathologist as part of a patient/client’s intervention. During hippotherapy, functional...