FACILITATION-SYSTEMIC THERAPY

Overview

Facilitation-systemic Therapy is a comprehensive therapeutic system, founded on the methodological basis of Luria's neuropsychological school. It is based on Luria's idea of brain functioning, and on his legacy and the work of many of his colleagues and followers. Facilitation-systemic Therapy is also a set of procedures and methods reflecting the needs of contemporary Czech and (with a slight linguistic modification) Slovakian clinical speech therapy aphasiological practice. It is based on the belief that, in contemporary practice, there is already a widely known number of useful methods and aids that can help in overcoming the difficulties arising from fatal and cognitive disorders, but therapists in clinical Speech Therapy or neuropsychological practice lack a clear justification of when and how to use certain therapeutic methods and aids, how to consistently causally justify the use of a particular method or approach at a given stage of development of a phatic disorder or, conversely, how to reject a certain method at a certain time because of its possible negative effect on the re-education of phatic and cognitive functions. We emphasise the importance of practical training in diagnostics and therapy from Luria´s positions and, above all, the need to train what are called the “soft skills”, which are another necessary condition for increasing the effectiveness of the therapeutic process.

Keywords:

aphasia – agnosia – apraxia – clinical neuropsychological examination – Facilitation-systemic Therapy