How to do Cognitive Rehabilitation Workshop for Professionals

Programme

OVERVIEW/EDUCATION? 10.00am
Overview of course.The 4 approaches to practical rehabilitation. The need for education and 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 what we did with this case study.

COFFEE 11.00am

PROCESS TRAINING 11.30am
What is process training? The process training cycle. Does process training work? How does process training work and the link with self efficacy. Incorporating awareness training into process training. How to design tasks for process training. Grading activities. Group work on designing a process training task for a case study. Feedback.

LUNCH 12.30pm

STRATEGY TRAINING 1.30pm
The use of strategy training. Difficulties with strategy training. Benefits of strategy training. Teaching strategies through using process training and functional activities training. Group work on teaching strategies via process training using a case study. Feedback.

TEA 2.30pm

FUNCTIONAL ACTIVITIES TRAINING 3.00pm
The end of the rainbow. 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.

FINISH 4.00pm