Relational Approaches to Rehabilitation Following Acquired Brain Injury
Venue: London Voluntary Sector Resource Centre
Date: Friday 27th November 2009
Agenda
This day is an opportunity to bring together clinicians who prioritise, relationships, the relational, interpersonal and social in their neuro-rehabilitative work. To think differently about both traditional concepts and new challenges within community ABI services. Speakers will present in groups of two or three within this spirit of relationships & community
09.30 Registration
10.00 Introduction: Invitations inwards & outwards in ABI services
Ceri Bowen, Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability Putney, Siobhan Palmer, BIRT & Giles Yeates, Community Head Injury Service, Aylesbury
DYADS IN REHABILITATION:
10.15 Feelings, beliefs & self-other representations following ABI: Neuropsychoanalytical perspectives
Oliver Turnbull, University of Wales & Aikaterini Fotopoulou, University College London
10.45 Understanding & Supporting Intimacy after ABI
Giles Yeates, Community Head Injury Service, Aylesbury & Siobhan Palmer, BIRT
11.15 Tea/Coffee
FAMILY SYSTEMS:
11.30 Systemic approaches to family work following ABI
Ceri Bowen, Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability Putney & Siobhan Palmer, BIRT
12:00 Working with child relatives following adult ABI
Audrey Daisley, Oxford Centre for Enablement & Sal Connolly, Royal Hospital for Neuro-Disability, Putney
12.30 Supporting Dads and Parents after ABI
Stephen Weatherhead, South Cheshire Acquired Brain Injury Service & Rachel Skippon
13.00 Lunch and Division of Neuropsychology AGM
WIDER SYSTEMS: GROUPS, WORK, COMMMUNITY, TECHNOLOGY:
14.00 Survivors' use of shared executive minds in neuro-rehabilitation: The Psychological Support Group
Fergus Gracey, Oliver Zangwill Centre, Siobhan Palmer, BIRT & Giles Yeates, Community Head Injury Service, Aylesbury
14.30 Relationships in the work-place following ABI
Andy Tyerman & Ruth Tyerman, Community Head Injury Service, Aylesbury
15.00 Tea/Coffee
15.15 The community neuropsychologist: Developing new models and practices in neuro-disability services
Phil Yates, Mardon Neuro-Rehabilitation Centre & University of Exeter & Gail Leeder, BIRT
15.45 The distributed mind and assisting cognition
Brian O'Neill & Alex Gillespie
16.15 Plenary Discussion with all speakers
16.45 Close
