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Task Analysis as an Intervention

January 9, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This resource offers a sample for task analysis, as well as a blank template with provided examples or the option to create your own.  
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Self-Awareness

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout describes the foundations of self-awareness as related to brain injury. This information breaks down intellectual awareness, emergent awareness, and anticipatory awareness and describes treatment processes in rehabilitation therapy that can improve self-awareness.
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Readiness for Change

January 5, 2022 by Megan Berg.
This handout provides clinicians with a visual representation of the stages of change based on the transtheoretical model of change and can be used with clients to encourage self-reflection and initiate a discussion on behavior change. 
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Perseveration

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Perseveration can be a confusing and frustrating symptom of brain injury for patients and their family and friends. This handout is designed to describe the neurological basis for perseveration, including why it happens as well as examples of how it manifests throughout the day. The handout offers suggestions for what to do when someone is perseverating.
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Emergent Awareness

December 25, 2021 by Megan Berg.
This handout is designed to help patients (and really, mostly their family and friends) understand the process of awareness and how it impacts recovery from brain injury.  The handout includes ways to assess emergent awareness as well as ways to improve emergent awareness. Part of our self awareness series.
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Counseling in Rehabilitation

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
When working as a therapist in rehabilitation, counseling will be a part of the job as the person you are working with is learning to cope with a life-changing diagnosis and a new normal. This material guides how to provide effective counseling, or purposeful conversation, by creating an empathetic environment and trust with four qualities: caring, self-awareness, observation, and active listening.
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Confabulation

December 23, 2021 by Megan Berg.
Confabulation is related to memory impairment and can be present when a person has damage to the frontal lobe of their brain. A person may distort, fabricate, or misinterpret information to “fill the gaps” of knowledge they cannot recall. This handout provides further education about confabulation symptoms and what to do when a person presents with confabulation.
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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 functional ability of the client.
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