19th May
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Title: "Meaning, Identity, and Self-Regulation in Brain Injury Rehabilitation" workshop
Presenter: Professor Mark Ylvisaker, PhD
Date: 19th May, 2008
Time: 9:30am- 4pm
Cost: Professionals and Part time studnets £25, Full time students £10
Suitable for: Any professionals that work with individuals who have sustained a brain injury including speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, physiotherapists, neuropsychologists, nurses, doctors, etc.
Abstract:
In this workshop Professor Ylvisaker will address a set of closely inter-related issues that tend to be critical in the rehabilitation of individuals with traumatic brain injury. Substantial changes in ability profiles after the injury often block a return to the social, vocational, and educational pursuits that defined meaning in life before the injury. In addition, damage to the frontal lobes typically impairs self-regulatory capacity as well as the ability to reflect in an organized manner about ones new identity. Thus rehabilitation professionals become, in part, consultants to the person’s difficult process of constructing meaning in life, reconstructing a satisfying and organized sense of personal identity, and learning how to regulate emotions and behaviour so that meaning and identity can be effectively constructed. Professor Ylvisaker will present procedural details in these domains as well as illustrative case material.
Objectives:
The participants will be able to:
1. describe a theoretical framework and identify clinical procedures associated with identity reconstruction after traumatic brain injury
2. describe a theoretical framework and identify clinical procedures associated with self-coaching as an approach to behavioural and emotional self-regulation after traumatic brain injury
3. describe a theoretical framework and identify clinical procedures associated with the use of personally meaningful projects in brain injury rehabilitation
Agenda: The day will be split into three parts. They are as follows:
1: Meaning and identity after brain injury
2: Self-coaching and self-regulation
3: The use of projects in brain injury rehabilitation
Brief Biographical Sketch
After an early career teaching philosophy at Carleton College and the University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Ylvisaker became a speech-language pathologist. Currently, he is Professor of Communication Sciences and Disorders at the College of Saint Rose in Albany, New York. He has over 30 years of clinical and program development experience with children and young adults with neurogenic cognitive, self-regulatory, behavioral, and communication disorders in rehabilitation and special education settings. Dr. Ylvisaker is author of over 125 publications, including six books and a large number of journal articles and book chapters. His two most recent books are (1) Traumatic Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Children and Adolescents and (2) Collaborative Brain Injury Intervention: Positive Everyday Routines, with Tim Feeney. He is actively engaged in the work of several professional organizations, serves on a number of national and international committees and on the editorial board of six journals, consults to rehabilitation and education programs in 13 countries on five continents, and presents frequently to national and international audiences on topics related to rehabilitation and education of individuals with cognitive, behavioral, and communication disability.
How do I register for this workshop?
Places are limited. To register please download the registration form (download registration form here), complete it, print it out and mail to CETL. Please include your registration fee.
Need further information?
For further information please contact Naomi Cocks Naomi.Cocks.1@city.ac.uk tel 020 7040 8287 or Olga Leonova o.leonova@qmul.ac.uk tel 020 7882 2069
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Booking information:
1) Please e-mail c.buckwell@qmul.ac.uk and insert the code (PM08/06) in the subject line of the e-mail.
2) Please include the following information in your email:
a) Your name; b) Your profession; c) Year of study (for example 3rd year medic or 2nd yr SLT)
3) Only those who secure a place will receive a reply. All replies will be sent out within one week.
Places are limited, so book your place early to avoid disappointment
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1) When booking a LNL session please insert the code for the session in the subject box of your email.
2) Please include the following information in your email. (This is to help us pitch the session to the groups needs)
a) Your name
b) Your profession
c) Year of study (For example 3rd year medic or 2nd yr SaL)
3) Only those who secure a place will receive a reply. All replies will be sent out within one week.
4) Send your emails to c.buckwell@qmul.ac.uk
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