About NPB
A brain-based framework grounded in development
Neuropsychological Behavioralism (NPB) is Dr. Marie Filion’s original evidence-based framework integrating neuropsychological science, Piagetian development, and personalized intervention planning. It reframes assessment by starting with brain function, developmental organization, and meaningful bodily communication rather than diagnostic labels alone.
How NPB was built
NPB brings together developmental psychology, neuropsychological function, and clinical observation into a structured model for understanding how people organize emotion, behavior, and adaptation across the lifespan.
Foundation
Piagetian roots
NPB is grounded in Piaget’s developmental framework, including the affective dimension often left out of category-first clinical models. Development is treated as an active process that shapes regulation, meaning, and adaptation.
Founder
Dr. Marie Filion’s contribution
Dr. Filion developed NPB through years of clinical application, integrating evidence from developmental psychology, affective science, and brain-based assessment into a practical framework for personalized intervention.
Approach
What makes NPB different
Instead of beginning with diagnosis as the primary organizing lens, NPB starts from region-specific function, developmental mapping, interview and history-taking, and the clinical meaning of bodily sensations to guide intervention planning.
Differentiators
Why institutions and clinicians look closely at NPB
Perspective
A framework for meaningful clinical understanding
NPB treats bodily sensations, affective shifts, and behavioral patterns as meaningful developmental communication rather than noise to be managed away. This creates a different clinical posture: one that asks what a pattern is expressing, how it was organized, and what level of development it reflects.
That perspective supports a more coherent bridge between assessment and intervention. It also challenges approaches that rely only on symptom suppression or acceptance without asking whether anxiety, dysregulation, or defensive behavior may reflect unresolved developmental organization.
Bodily sensations are not random interference. In NPB, they are clinically meaningful signals that can inform developmental understanding and personalized intervention.
Neuropsychological Behavioralism (NPB)
For academic, institutional, and clinical audiences, NPB offers a structured language for linking brain function, development, and treatment planning in a way that remains evidence-based while clinically usable.