PRACTICE

Dr. Turnbull also has expertise providing services to caregivers and patients diagnosed with dementia. For 4 years, she worked primarily in long term care facilities directly with patients diagnosed with dementia, and consulted with staff to facilitate care when patients became non-compliant or mood symptoms were prevalent. Since 2004, she has focused upon the caregiver of patients diagnosed with dementia (research has shown the approach of the caregiver is the single most influential environmental cue for cooperation... Cognitive behavioral therapy asserts a causal relationship between healthy & unhealthy human assumptions/thoughts regarding our environment, emotions & behaviors. For example, a bus-phobic person may assume "I am in danger" when getting on a bus. Cognitive behavioral therapy would ask that person to review the known assumptions & test out the theory with experiments (typically following the development of anxiety management skills,) then replace the unhealthy..

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