Therapy and the Neural Network Model

This innovative work explores applications of emerging research about how the brain processes information to therapeutic interventions. Typically, clinicians select therapeutic interventions based on their own training, personal experience or preference; and participant factors, such as contextual or relationship factors. This book aims to provide a new tool, distilling current understandings of how the individual client learns and unlearns behaviors, and the relationships between them. This work begins with a short and accessible overview of the neural network model, and the general aims of therapy. It explores the neural network model of learning, reward recognition, routines, and memory reconsolidation, and how they apply to the learning process of therapy. Next, the authors explore existing valid systems of therapy and how the neural network model can be integrated with them, including: Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT), Dialetical Behavior Therapy (DBT), third wave therapies and non-directive therapy. Therapy and the Neural Network Model is a exciting resource for researchers and practitioners interested in understanding more about the applications of the neural network model for therapy and behavioral change, as well as those in related fields such as behavioral medicine, health psychology, social work, and public health.