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THE INSIGHT WORKSHOP
- Thanks so much for your recent inspirational and informative training course
- I really enjoyed the Insight workshop last week and it was really well presented and delivered
- Just a few words to say thanks so much to Kit and Anne for a very informative two day workshop. Left feeling very inspired
- Just to say thank you for a brilliant course. I will be putting into place a number of changes to practice following this
- This course was just so GOOD!
- Thank you both very much for a very stimulating and informative experience
- I now intend to use the change curve, which you showed us, with my clients
- As a result of this course I will develop a structured questionnaire to help me assess the level of intellectual awareness during my inital interview
- I have understood how important it is to ensure my communication style is direct and appropriate to the needs of my patients
- I will use the diagram of the model of insight you provided and will mark where each of my patients is on it, as part of my assessment approach
- The information from this course will help me to develop better hypotheses for treatment direction
- This course has helped me to realise that dealing with insight problems is as much my responsibility as someone elses
- As a result of this course I feel that I can be more confident that the behavioural observations that I make about my patients should be taken into account when formulating the treatment plan
- I have realised that the whole team need to work together to formulate opinion about insight issues
- This course has helped me to recognise that treatment for insight problems takes time - I had no appreciation it takes so long. It gives me confidence that the work I am doing in this area is actually moving patients forward on their journey to adjustment
- I now intend to spend more time looking at insight more specifically; firstly I will examine it in relationship to the different domains of function, rather than dealing with it as a single entity
- Just
a short note to say that I really appreciate that you guys keep on coming
to Norway to share your great knowledge and experience in the area of
cognitive rehabilitation with us. The presentation/lecturing and the
hand outs are done in a splendid way
- Excellent,
informative, worth every penny
- Both
Kit and Anne are excellent presenters
- Excellent,
professional and knowledgeable presenters
- Wonderful,
inspiring speakers - very dynamic, natural flow of presentation
- Fantastic,
knowledgeable, insightful
- Well
prepared, and Kit and Anne had lots of answers
- Great
sense of humour, obviously very knowledgeable and familiar with research
- Kit
and Anne were passionate and helpful with being able to apply material
when I return to work
- Excellent,
fun, informative and thought provoking
- Very
energetic, funny, motivating presenters
- Very
good at training participants into different thought processes
- Very
organised, well laid out content
- Great
information and both speakers are great at breaking things down
- As
a result of this course I will change my documentation to include the
awareness domains
- I
very much enjoyed your 2 day course in Vancouver last week. Thanks for
sharing all your knowledge and experience which will certainly impact
my clinical practice
- I will use the
Change Curve you showed us with my support workers and show them how
to use this to help the patients in their adjustment
- The
model you have presented will help us in our team discussions about
patients in relation to the Mental Capacity Act
- I will use the
model you presented to guide our setting of SMART goals with the patients,
and it will be a great tool to aid the patients to visually understand
where they are on their journey to adjustment
- I
intend to set a long term plan in my team to help us manage awareness;
this will involve ensuring they have the necessary skill levels and
will include training, courses, and documentation
- I will incorporate
the self prediction/evaluation approach you described into all therapy
sessions. I think this will be an invaluable tool to help ongoing development
of awareness in my clients
- I
will use the model of awareness you presented to guide my assessments
and treatments
- The course has
given me a better idea of how and why I need to prioritise the various
treatments that I do, based on the patients' level of awareness
- The
models you have presented on this course give me a great tool for risk
assessment decision making
- I now intend to
put much more emphasis on developing therapeutic partnerships with patients
in order to avoid confrontation issues
- I
will look at developing pictorial materials to support my treatment
decisions
- I will ensure the
team can provide support to each other when approaching awareness and
adjustment issues with clients
- I
will find the model you have presented very useful to help the relatives
of my patients understand the awareness issues
- The course has
helped me understand why several of my past patients have had such major
insight problems - I can see how their divided attention deficits led
to this
- As
a rehabilitation assistant the course has helped me understand why patients
are not using their strategies; I can see now how this is not due to
laziness or awkwardness and how it is actually part of their brain injury.
I will now feel much more confident to voice my opinions in clinical
meetings as the course has given me the knowledge to help me back up
my observations and views
- I can take the
information from this course and use it on Monday
- We
can't wait to get back to work to try all this out - it's great!
- I have realised
how important it is to begin to work on developing awareness in patients
at the acute level of the patients journey
- The
course has helped me understand the interaction between cognitive/executive/linguistic,
and psychosocial aspects, with awareness development. I had not fully
appreciated this before attending the course
- As a result of
this course I will change the way I report on insight - I will incorporate
the levels, amounts and domains you showed us
- I
think this model is really practical; it allows me to see exactly what
to do with my patients and explains why
- I will try to get
the whole multi disciplinary team involved in educating the client about
his/her brain injury. I can now see how essential this is
- As a result of
this course I will ensure my goals are more specific for awareness.
I feel confident in being able to do this now - a great thing to gain
from the course
- I have learned
that I need to spend more time and effort on educating my patients appropriately.
I will go away and consider the most appropriate format, terminology
and timing, and how to ensure repetition and good coordination in this
process throughout the whole MDT
- I now intend to
look into the use of groups to help in the process of developing awareness
- As a result of
this course I intend to do much more specific awareness training for
the families
- I
now intend to be much more structured and organised in the plans our
MDT sets up for developing the clients' awareness
- This
course has given me the framework around which I can organise what I
am already doing in this crucial area of awareness training
- I
have found the model you presented on this course to be invaluable.
I intend to keep a copy of this near my desk at all times so that I
can ensure that I am using it in my day to day work
- This
course has given me the insight that I need to be much more direct with
my patients. I will go away and explore this in my dealings with my
patients
- I
am aware that our team currently skirts around the issues of dealing
with awareness, moving towards a new sense of self and breaking bad
news. This course has really highlighted this for me and I intend to
return to our team to discuss how we can do these things better
- I
have learned how important it is that the whole MDT all work to the
same end e.g. some of our team tend to think patients are denying things,
whereas others focus on lack of awareness. This course has really clarified
the major differences between these constructs and how treatment differs
for them both
- As
a result of this course I intend to go back and review our services
to ensure that we provide awareness work in our community support level
of rehabilitation. I assumed, incorrectly as it turns out, that this
work had been completed earlier in the patients rehabilitation. I realise
it is something that needs to take place throughout the patients journey
- I now intend to
educate people early on in my treatment
- I
will use the model you have provided on the course to enable me to be
more precise in my treatment of insight. It will also help me be more
aware of where my patients are at in terms of insight and thereby direct
me in how to give more appropriate therapy in all other areas
- The material on
this workshop is very real and applicable to the field
- This
workshop exceeded my expectations. It provided me with very real, practical
ways of offering services to my clients
- A very worthwhile
course!
- This
workshop exceeded my expectations! It was very motivating and gives
me new ideas to bring back to my group
- The speakers were
excellent
- This
course exceeded my expectations. Excellent speakers and materials. Well
worth the money
- This was the best
workshop I have taken in 10+ years. Great job all around
- Very
enlightening course. I see this will reshape my methods of practice.
Thanks
- Great quality of
presentation
- Kit
and Anne were fantastic. I appreciated the usefulness of the information
presented, the examples given and their senses of humour
- This was an exceptional
workshop. I can't wait to share it
- Well
done! Instructive, leads to further inspiration to improve practice.
The 'simple' approach to a complex issue is one that can be immediately
integrated into daily practice
- Thank you! I am
excited to go back to work and share this information with my co-workers
and try it out in practice
- Excellent
speakers and excellent presentation
- Excellent
course, very practical information, very useful
- The overall quality
of the experience and the speakers were excellent
- I
really enjoyed the 2 days; I think the speakers were great, the information
was clear and well presented, and I have come away with lots of good
ideas that I will put into practice. Thank you!
- Excellent presentation.
I will be able to apply this information in many ways
- This
was a GREAT workshop - very practically minded - based on solid evidence
- Great assessment
tool. Thankful to have something concrete to use that is fairly simple
and easy to understand. I have a new understanding of insight and awareness.
I have a way to measure and work on helping to improve these issues
for TBI clients. I would recommend this course highly to others
- I liked how the
information was transferable to different professional practices. It
was presented in a fairly accessible format. I think this workshop achieves
your goal of education that can be used on the very next work day
- We will now ensure
that our service professionals all speak the same language at each level
of the service. We will achieve this by sharing the information you
have provided on this course with other members of our team
- The
course has shown me that it is not possible to expect a patient to apply
compensatory strategies until a certain stage of awareness development.
I now understand why I got stuck in treatment with one particular patient
who I was expecting to compensate for his problems, when he was only
at the basic intellectual stage of awareness
- The model you have
provided will help me involve the team in the awareness issues rather
than it just being downloaded to the psychologist - which is the normal
attitude of therapists (this comment was made by a psychologist!)
- I
work in the medico legal arena - the model you have provided is an excellent
tool which will help me see where the person is at and their potential,
and even more importantly provides me with an objective way of describing
the type of service they need in concrete terms
- I work in acute
care and I now understand that my relationship with the patient is of
paramount importance
- The
tool you have provided is concrete and visual for everyone - especially
the client. Many people are doing the things intuitively that you have
taught us, but the model helps us show in a concrete way why we are
doing these things
- I am now anxious
to get back to work to see if the patients sit where I think they are
on the model
- As
a result of this course I will do more observations to ensure emergent
and anticipatory awareness aspects of awareness are also measured in
my setting
- Thanks to you both
for another truly inspiring and motivating workshop. Brilliant. Using
CRT principles has enhanced my practice so much - its a though someone
has switched on a light bulb somewhere! It was great that my colleague
could be there too this time - we've come back and our brains are buzzing
- Your
course was undoubtedly one of the best, if not the best course I have
ever been on for TBI, and most relevant
- I
intend to use the framework presented on this course to guide the team
in their efforts to improve the insight of our patients
- I
now realise the need to introduce more formal counselling approaches
at an early stage in our rehabilitation programme, in order to help
the clients when we broach topics related to their problems
- Much
of my effort has gone into teaching strategies to my patients, and there
are times when I seem to be plugging away at this without getting anywhere.
This course has shown me why this happens, so I will certainly be using
the approaches laid out for us. In addition the couse explains the whole
problem with generalisation very clearly
- I
will now video tape all my sessions with patients in order to use the
material for feedback purposes with the aim of improving insight
- I
really like the models presented on this course and will adapt them
to my setting
- In
terms of breaking bad news to my patients I will endeavour to be more
honest and direct now by giving the patient clear and realistic timeframes.
This will enable us to manage the patients expectations better and will
also help less experienced members of the team to feel comfortable with
doing this
- I
intend to look more closely at supporting the relatives. I need to examine
things from their perspective as I now realise this is probably hindering
the progress of some of my patients. The question I am asking myself
is: How can I help the relatives gain awareness at the same rate as
the patient?
- I
like the frameworks you have presented on this course and I will now
download the assessment process from your website to help me apply what
I have learned over these two days
- I
intend to use the tools you have given us on this course to educate
my staff and to help explain the patients' level of insight
- I
will now photocopy the model that we were given on this course, pin
it on my wall, and then use it to educate the multi-disciplinary team
about awareness issues
- As
a result of this course I will now try to be more direct with my patients.
I can really see how important this is now for them to progress
- I
have realised I need to spend more time regularly reiterating the following
with my patients: treatment aims, the problems we are working on, and
the purposes of the therapy. In fact I intend to do this every session
from now onwards
- I
will now be more specific and direct in my work with the relatives
- I
intend to obtain more information from Headway so that I can use this
with relatives - as recommended on this course
- I
now intend to educate my other OT colleagues, nurses and consultants
about these awareness issues because I can now really see how essential
it is that we all understand what we are doing in this area
- As
a result of this course I will educate my patients about the levels
of awareness we were shown in the model
- Now
that I have been on this course I feel better equipped to approach one
of my current patients in a different way. I feel I have been stuck
in what to do; I now have a way forward that I feel will help him
- As
a result of this course I now have the confidence and knowledge to stand
up for what I am doing to help awareness grow in my client group, when
I am challenged by other members of my team
- I
am going to go away and develop some structured open and closed questions
that the team can use with our clients. We will write these out and
train all staff to use them
- I
am going to develop a standard questionnaire for awareness which we
will be able to use at the referral point. I will also ensure the team
are more thorough in not assuming that this has been done at an earlier
stage in the patients' journey. This needs to be checked and it is our
responsibility
- I
will be able to use the model you presented on the course to justify
extra long term resources for my client group
- The
assessment process you have given us is very logical
- As
a result of this course I will now develop a structured assessment process
in my team, so that we can improve on the current more general approach
we have in place to develop awareness
- I
now have greater confidence in adding awareness as a rehabilitation
goal. There is a tendency to wait for this to develop rather than actively
dealing directly with it. The course has shown me the importance of
awareness and given me tools to use to incorporate this as a key element
in our treatment programme
- This course has
given me more insight into trying to understand the patients and to
devise better ways to help them - particularly for difficult patients
- We
will now structure our assessment of this area of functioning in more
detail, by looking at what we currently do and how we can modify this
- The course has
made me realise how important the family is in helping develop awareness
- The
course has made me realise how important education is, so I will review
what I do with this
- I will be less
confrontational with patients who are in denial and will look at why
I get frustrated with patients who do not progress
- The
course was great and I am quite excited at the implications for improved
treatment at our unit. Have already started implementing some of the
ideas
- Once again I found
your course very instructive and stimulating, managing to consolidate
and broaden the small amount of knowledge that I already had
- Describing
to a colleague why I find your courses so uplifting and thought provoking,
I said that I felt it was because you are two therapists actually working
hands on
- You are able to
put across, in a language I can understand, the reasons why, and how
best, to deal with daily problems that confront. Most importantly you
are able to put across the point of view from the brain injured person's
side, something that is often forgotten
- It
really focused my thinking in this area, and made me realise it was
an area that we didnt have a structured approach to, but that we certainly
have to address.
- The
course was inspiring and poses our team and services a challenge
- I really enjoyed
the course. It's given me a lot to think about - as a professional (nurse)
and as a member of a community TBI
team.
- In
one survey 92% of respondents stated that the information covered in
the course was very relevant to their overall personal development
- In
one survey 100% of respondents stated that the handout material was
up to date, relevant and clearly presented
- In
one survey 92% of respondents stated that the course was excellent (the
other 8% said it was good)
- This
course increased my knowledge tremendously
- The
course gave me a structure for things that were not hanging together
in my clinical practice
- It
improved my understanding of awareness and the importance of assessment
and treatment of this crucial area
- I
am now better able to integrate issues around insight into my overall
management of brain injured patients
- I
will be changing my clinical practice and feel that this course has
answered so many questions I have had
- Because
of this course I will be able to explain more clearly what problems
patients with insight difficulties will have in dealing with their deficits
post injury
- This
course has altered the way I will assess and treat my patients
- I
now aim to take the ideas and model to my team for discussion in order
to ensure a structured approach to assessment and treatment of insight
problems
- I
will attempt to address awareness and denial issues at an earlier stage
in my patient management
- The
team will now try to identify patients on the model of awareness presented
on this course, so that we can begin a more structured and directed
treatment programme with realistic goals
- I
will now look more at issues of loss and grief with my patients
- I
have learned how important it is to be more open with my patients and
their relatives to help raise their awareness. I intend to do this by
providing them with more information
- Excellent
and very very relevant
- Very
comprehensive course
- Core
examples and analogies used throughout were useful
- Brilliant.
I really enjoyed it!
- I
would just like to say how helpful I found this course. If I'd had it
a year ago it would have saved a lot of mental anguish on my part and
the clients
- I
honestly felt the presentation was excellent
- I
very much liked the use of examples which helped me to understand the
models used and the treatment approaches
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