This resource includes several different types of breathing techniques and simple mindfulness practices that can improve a client’s breathing and awareness.
This mindfulness exercise brings awareness to meeting families where they are when faced with challenging behavioral situations or lack of follow-through.
Migraine headaches can cause significant pain and suffering for people who experience them. You may wonder how migraines may be treated in a therapy setting and what the evidence supports for reducing the impact of migraines. This handout outlines some non pharmacological treatment options and strategies that may help with migraines.
This resource includes the risks of stovetop cooking and many simple meal option “recipe cards” to make during a treatment session using only a microwave. Use to assess whether simplification of home cooking improves functional independence or if ongoing assistance will be required.
Metacognition is a higher-level cognitive skill critical for improving organization, problem solving, self-monitoring, and self-correction. It is dependent on self-awareness, which can be impaired following brain injury. This handout explains metacognition, metacognitive strategies, and ways to improve self-awareness.
Mental fatigue is a common long-lasting symptom that is poorly understood by people with brain injuries. This educational handout describes mental fatigue following brain injury, symptoms and places/times it can be worse, provides suggestions for assessment tools to track mental fatigue over a period of time, and tips/strategies to manage mental fatigue.
This is an outline for a scrapbooking activity that caregivers/family can create with the patient with dementia in order to recall and commemorate past events.
The cause of Méniére syndrome is not well understood but causes dizziness or vertigo, intermittent hearing loss, sensation of fullness in the ears, and ringing in the ears. Frequently episodes of dizziness are the most debilitating and last for hours or days. Hearing loss generally happens slowly over time with acute flare-ups affecting the ability to hear low frequencies first.