HOW TO DO COGNITIVE REHABILITATION WORKSHOP
For Professionals

COURSE LOCATION: Gatwick Hilton, Gatwick Airport, Sussex, UK

INSTRUCTORS: Kit Malia & Anne Brannagan

‘Where cognitive impairment is causing management difficulties or limiting response to rehabilitation, specialist advice should be sought and, if appropriate, the patient referred to a formal cognitive rehabilitation programme’


RCP/BSRM National Clinical Guidelines [UK] (2003)

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

This one day interactive workshop is suitable for professionals working with adults who have cognitive problems following brain injury.

The course focuses on practical activities that can be used in the rehabilitation of attention, visual processing, information processing, memory and executive functions.

AIMS:

  • To teach therapists how to Design, Develop & Implement a comprehensive cognitive rehabilitation programme

 



  


COURSE CONTENT:

OVERVIEW: The 4 approaches to practical rehabilitation

EDUCATION: The need for education. A recommended basic curriculum. Understanding how to teach and tips for doing this. Example of education sheet about attention. Illustrative case study. Group work on how to provide an education programme using a case study. Feedback and summary of the education approach we used with this case study.

PROCESS TRAINING : What is process training? The process training cycle. Does process training work? How does process training work. The link with self efficacy. Incorporating awareness training. How to design tasks for process training. Grading activities. Group work on designing a process training task using a case study. Feedback.

STRATEGY TRAINING: The use of strategy training. Difficulties with strategy training. Benefits of strategy training. Teaching strategies through process training and functional activities training. Group work on teaching strategies via process training, using a case study. Feedback.

FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES TRAINING: The lost art. Used as a medium for training specific cognitive skills. Choosing activities to use. 7 steps to using functional activities training. Summary of how these steps were used with a case study.

CONCLUSION: Setting these approaches into the context of holistic treatment programmes.

 

 


£85

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