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Resilience and Traumatic Brain Injury

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is based on the course Weasilience: Traumatic Brain Injury and Resilience presented by Carole Starr, M.S. The handout reviews overcoming denial, observing the situation, and learning from the experience and provides a list of books and websites that brain injury survivors can look to for information about resilience.
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Group Therapy: How to Manage Energy After a Brain Injury (Spoon Theory)

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
The “Spoon Theory” was created by Christine Miserandino to help explain how brain injuries affect a person’s energy resources. This group activity can help lead a discussion about what daily mental and physical activities “use spoons” and which activities “replace/gain spoons” for energy conservation. This activity encourages a person to identify the specific daily tasks […]
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Group Therapy Activity: Grief and Acceptance with Brain Injury

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
A brain injury can forever change the lives of the person with a brain injury and his/her family members. Naturally, survivors will experience grief with this lifestyle change. Carole J. Starr’s book To Root & To Rise: Accepting Brain Injury served as a guide for this important group discussion and personal reflection treatment tasks.
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Changes to Behavior and Personality After Brain Injury

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Many patients and families struggle with the reality of the long-term changes in behavior and personality associated with brain injury. Includes descriptions of aggression, confabulation, emotional lability, lacking emotion, being put in unsafe situations, poor judgment, lack of initiation, disinhibition, agitation, and anxiety.
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Brain Craft

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This leisure-based intervention addresses bilateral fine motor coordination, executive functioning, attention, and visual perceptual skills while providing brain education and encouraging creativity. It is a fun way to work with clients who have survived brain injury or stroke, while addressing important functional skills. This activity has graded options for implementation based on time constraints or […]
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10 Ways to Support Your Recovery (Inside and Outside the Treatment Room)

December 9, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Recovery doesn’t stop at the threshold of the therapy room. This handout is designed for rehabilitation therapists working with patients who are recovering from brain injury. It lays out 10 concrete ways that they can support neuroplasticity and maximize recovery from brain injury.
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