Brain Injury
Training

• Introduction to Training Services
• Bespoke ABI Training Services
• Understanding ABI
• ABI Rehabilitation and Sexuality
• Challenging Behaviour After ABI
• COG Rehabilitation in Practice

Headway Essex Training Services

Headway Essex has a role within the community to educate people about brain injury and its consequences. We seek to promote the best possible support for people living with acquired brain injury.

This training will equip delegates with essential knowledge necessary to support people living with acquired brain injury.

We offer this training via open interactive workshops or bespoke in house training events where we will deliver training at a venue of your choice.

This training is appropriate for health and social care departments, support workers, case workers, care agencies, legal professionals, psychologists, OTs, Physiotherapists, voluntary sector agencies, counsellors/psychotherapists, nurses and other professionals working with clients who are living with acquired brain injury.

TRAINER – Steven Shears, MSc Psychology, Bsc (Hons) Psychology, Dip PST, HG Dip MBACP (accred)

Steve Shears is the former Training Manager for Headway – the brain injury association. He is an accredited counsellor/psychotherapist with the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy. He is a renowned psychotherapist and trainer in a whole range of brain injury and behavioural issues.

His Masters degree was mainly in the cognitive neuroscience side of psychology. He is also an NVQ A1 Assessor in the field of health and social care and has a special interest in counselling with people who are living with brain injury and integrating this into a holistic approach to cognitive rehabilitation. He has made media appearances on TV and Radio in relation to brain injury and has spoken at brain injury conferences in the UK and Europe.

COGNITIVE REHABILITATION IN PRACTICE
AN INTERACTIVE WORKSHOP FOR ALL PEOPLE WORKING WITH PEOPLE
WHO ARE LIVING WITH ACQUIRED BRAIN INJURY

TO BE HELD AT
Birkett Long Solicitors, Number One, Legg Street
Chelmsford, Essex, CM1 1JS
ON
Thursday 5th July 2012 between 10am and 4pm
Price per delegate £50 (includes lunch and all materials)

THE TRAINER
Steven Shears MSc, BSc Hons, HG PG Dip, Dip PST, Cert CC Relate. MBACP (Accred)

THE REASON YOU SHOULD ATTEND THIS WORKSHOP
This workshop looks at practical ways of helping people living with brain injury to relearn lost skills, and explores the role that brain injury education, process training, compensatory strategies and functional skills training have in helping people to make progress and achieve a level of independence appropriate to their aspirations and goals. Course participants will be able to use case studies and try out various techniques commonly used in cognitive rehabilitation therapy (CRT).

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