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From Offers to Action: 30+ Ways Friends and Family Can Support You

February 28, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource provides over 30 specific and practical ways for individuals in recovery to ask for and accept help from friends and family. Designed to make navigating offers of support easier, it empowers your clients to focus on healing while fostering meaningful connections with their support network.
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10 Mantras for Rehabilitation Therapy

January 31, 2025 by Ashley Zhinin.
Empower your clients with these inspiring posters, designed to spark reflection and build resilience in therapy sessions. Perfect for displaying in therapy spaces, they can serve as conversation starters or personal affirmations to support clients on their journey to recovery.
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Navigating the Complex and Frustrating World of Hospital Bills and Insurance Claims

September 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
Medical bills are increasingly complex and overwhelming, especially with current insurance models. This resource offers a strategy for breaking down costs to ensure that what is being charged is what is actually owed. Boost confidence with money management skills with this activity + full page of tips to help people navigate their hospital bills and insurance claims. Note that this is a U.S.-centric activity and focuses on U.S. legislation as well as typical U.S.-based health insurance policies.
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Solution-Focused Therapy Approaches

July 31, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
Two evidence-based solution-focused activities with a handout for clients experiencing health challenges that aids in constructing solutions instead of focusing on problems.
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Creating an Adult Sensory Diet

June 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource offers insights into creating an adult sensory diet. It includes a worksheet portion that can be used to create a sensory diet as part of an intervention plan.
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Sensory Preferences Checklist

June 30, 2024 by Ashley Zhinin.
This resource is a client-centered screening tool for adults with sensory difficulties. It has a comprehensive checklist of stimuli to develop a personalized reference that can be provided to caregivers, family members, etc to share what stimuli the individual finds triggering and methods of calming.
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Alcohol After Brain Injury

November 1, 2022 by Ashley Zhinin.
Many survivors of brain injury wonder if alcohol can remain a part of their lives. This handout explains the neuro-toxic effect of alcohol and provides suggested alternatives for continuing to enjoy the ritual of a drink without the alcohol.
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