Conversion of Social Capital in the Rehabilitation Process of Adolescents Following an Acquired Brain Injury

Recent rehabilitation counselling literature has pointed to major developments in the contribution of rehabilitation counsellors to acquired brain injury (ABI) rehabilitation. Rehabilitation counsellors have widened their skill base in case management, vocational evaluation, and in the therapeutic relationship between counsellor and client. It is evident, however, that better methods of ABI rehabilitation service delivery, including those services provided by rehabilitation counsellors, continue to be sought. Strategies needed to ensure the advancement of rehabilitation counselling practice and research in ABI rehabilitation are discussed, and involve the adoption of a systems approach, a shift away from dominant clinical psychological analyses in favour of psychosocial frameworks, and the co-participation of persons with ABI in the rehabilitation process.

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Strategies to Facilitate Successful Community Reintegration Following Acquired Brain Injury (ABI)

International Journal of Disability Management ◽

10.1375/jdmr.6.1.68 ◽

2011 ◽

Vol 6 (1) ◽

pp. 68-78 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Charmaine Mahar ◽

Kym Fraser

Keyword(s):

Brain Injury ◽

Management Strategies ◽

Acquired Brain Injury ◽

Executive Dysfunction ◽

Community Reintegration ◽

Service Access ◽

Emotional Lability ◽

Long Term Outcomes ◽

Rehabilitation Process

Acquired brain injury (ABI) is considered to be the primary cause of disability in our society. People with ABI face an array of challenges, which include emotional lability, disinhibition, irritability, distractibility, executive dysfunction, memory difficulties, inattention and noticeable changes to personality. Effective rehabilitation and community reintegration is considered essential for those with ABI but impeding the process is society's lack of knowledge and understanding. This is due in some part to the invisible nature of the disability. The focus of this article is to introduce the key areas that influence reintegration, being the rehabilitation process, service access and interventions. It is clear the reintegration process is greatly restricted by the lack of services and programs available to improve the long-term outcomes for people with ABI. To help facilitate successful community reintegration the article developed and lists a significant number of management strategies to assist those who are involved in the lives of people with ABI.

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”Hvis man havde set mig som menneske fremfor bare min skade” – Indefra-perspektiver på dansk neurorehabilitering

Forskning i Pædagogers Profession og Uddannelse ◽

10.7146/fppu.v2i1.105397 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Chalotte Glintborg

Keyword(s):

Brain Injury ◽

Empirical Data ◽

Acquired Brain Injury ◽

Human Being ◽

Study Analysis ◽

Neurological Disability ◽

Rehabilitation Process ◽

Follow Up Study ◽

Master Status

Øvrig forfatter: Dorthe Birkmose, cand.psych., selvstændig psykolog og kursusleder. ResuméFormålet med denne artikel er at se nærmere på, hvordan mennesker oplever at blive mødt i hjerneskaderehabiliteringen i Danmark. Empirisk trækkes der på interviews med de 82 personer, der indgik i ph.d.-afhandlingen ”Grib mennesket” (Glintborg, 2015) samt et opfølgningsstudie efter 5 år. Analyserne trækker på diskurspsykologi og narrativ teori til at udforske fortællinger og diskurser om personer med erhvervede hjerneskader. Analyserne viser, at det individuelle aspekt kan blive skubbet til side af et for stort fokus på hjerneskaden. Konklusionen er, at der er et behov for en professionalisme, der i højere grad balancerer den neurofaglige viden med indefra-perspektivet hos det enkelte menneske.AbstraktThe aim of this study was to explore how Danish adults with an acquired brain injury (ABI) experience encounters with professionals during their rehabilitation process. The study draws on empirical data from 82 adults with moderate to severe ABI collected as part of a Ph.D. project (Glintborg, 2015) and a 5-year follow up study. Analysis reveal that once diagnosed with ABI, this label can take a master status in encounters with professionals. Professionals' reification of the diagnosis of brain injury can be oppressive because it subjugates humanity such that everything a person does can be interpreted as part of the neurological disability. We conclude that there is a need for a new kind of professionalism that balance the diagnostic lens with a lens on the person as a human being.

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Neurobehavioural rehabilitation

Oxford Textbook of Neuropsychiatry ◽

10.1093/med/9780198757139.003.0040 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 475-482

Author(s):

Rodger L. Wood ◽

Nick Alderman ◽

Andrew Worthington

Keyword(s):

Social Cognition ◽

Brain Injury ◽

Self Regulation ◽

Acquired Brain Injury ◽

Challenging Behaviour ◽

Community Settings ◽

Functional Skills ◽

Rehabilitation Process ◽

Brain Injured

Helping brain-injured people re-adapt to society requires a system that provides individuals with opportunities to learn and apply social and functional skills in community settings. However, many types of acquired brain injury cause damage to prefrontal structures that are central to behavioural self-regulation, giving rise to complex patterns of socially challenging behaviour that can deny access to rehabilitation. Neurobehavioural rehabilitation was initially developed to address long-term problems of challenging behaviour that prevented individuals from engaging meaningfully with the rehabilitation process. However, it has evolved to promote psychosocial recovery more broadly, with the aim of changing behaviour from disabled, inappropriate, and socially handicapped to adaptive, purposeful, and ‘independent’. It is a paradigm that incorporates methods of associational learning within a structured environment that emphasizes clear feedback to raise awareness of behaviour, in a way that improves social cognition and self-regulation, to promote community independence.

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Training-the-Trainer on Assistive Technology for Cognition (ATC): Current Practices

Perspectives on Neurophysiology and Neurogenic Speech and Language Disorders ◽

10.1044/nnsld23.2.90 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 23 (2) ◽

pp. 90-94 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Laurie Ehlhardt Powell ◽

Tracey Wallace ◽

Michelle ranae Wild

Keyword(s):

Brain Injury ◽

Assistive Technology ◽

Acquired Brain Injury ◽

Online Training ◽

Evidence Based ◽

Train The Trainer ◽

Rehabilitation Professionals ◽

Remote Locations ◽

Training Package ◽

And Training

Research shows that if clinicians are to deliver effective, evidence-based assistive technology for cognition (ATC) services to clients with acquired brain injury (ABI), they first need opportunities to gain knowledge and experience with ATC assessment and training practices (O'Neil-Pirozzi, Kendrick, Goldstein, & Glenn, 2004). This article describes three examples of train the trainer materials and programs to address this need: (a) a toolkit for trainers to learn more about assessing and training ATC; (b) a comprehensive, trans-disciplinary program for training staff to provide ATC services in a metropolitan area; and (c) an overview of an on-site/online training package for rehabilitation professionals working with individuals with ABI in remote locations.

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