Surviving Brain Injury: First-hand insights from a rehab neurologist and a clinical psychologist

Dr Helen Kennerley Consultant Clinical Psychologist

with Professor Udo Kischka Rehabilitation Neurologist

Recorded session (3.25 hours CPD)

Cost: £35

Group tickets for up to 5 £120

• Get the lowdown on experiencing brain injury from experts who are also survivors

• Increase your insight and compassion

• Work more effectively with survivors and families

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A half-day online workshop, on-demand video

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Relevance of this workshop

This workshop is relevant for anyone surviving and working with head injury and in neuropsychology, in rehabilitation services, and for survivors and their families.

The workshop gives the patient and family perspectives at the same time as expert tips and advice and insights…since the stroke survivor is himself a rehabilitation neurologist, who was treated on the same ward where he practiced.

• What is it like to live through stroke and with consequences of stroke/brain injury?
• How patients and carers can support their own therapy: professionals can make rehab plans but the practice has to be done at home.
• Learn from experts both by training and experience.
• How often do we get the expert who becomes the patient?
• We hear from the neuro expert and his wife the therapy expert: having talked the talk they now have to walk the walk.
• Dealing with trauma from the inside out,
• Dealing with consequences of brain injury from the inside out

Strokes are not rare

More than 100,000 people in the UK suffer a stroke each year: this workshop will is for anyone who works or lives with the consequences of stroke or acquired brain injury.

At the 2018 UK Stroke Assembly, those affected by stroke outlined key messages for professionals in the field, these included the importance of:    “Hearing other people’s experiences of stroke and the achievements individuals have made in their recovery …  giving inspiration and hope to others in their own recovery.  The medical profession should not remove ‘hope’ from anyone’s recovery.”

This workshop achieves this by uniquely combining the professional knowledge of a neurologist and a psychotherapist with their very real experience of being the stroke victim and the carer. Created by experts on both sides of the fence – a stroke specialist who became stroke victim and a psychologist who had to use her skills to help her family. This is a personal, honest and hopeful story of survival as well as being a guide for surviving stroke using CBT strategies. Accessible and relatable, this workshop will provide insights and realistic hope about what might lie ahead following a stroke and what might be achieved through understanding the needs and strengths of the stroke survivor and their family and carers.

The workshop will:

Provide a neuro-psychological foundation that will contribute to developing a psychological conceptualisation of the strengths and needs of stroke victims and carers. This, in turn, will guide choice of interventions. Key CBT interventions will be illustrated.

Three important aims of the workshop are helping attendees:

• Discover what the stroke means to those it affects – going beyond observation and diagnosis.
• Maintain sight of the person beyond the patient.
• Consider the system as well as the person – a stroke frequently happens to an entire family.

What you will learn

• How to formulate the systemic impact of brain injury.
• Use this understanding to target support behaviours: know what behaviours to address and how, for the patient and the family.
• Make decisions about graduated steps towards recovery from a deep understanding of the patient’s reality and psychological principles.
• How to troubleshoot problems arising within the patient’s support system: family, institution, and services.

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Learning methods

The workshop will use:

• Teaching presentation
• Reading materials
• Videos
• Small group reflections
• Question time

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About the presenters

Dr. Helen Kennerley: Consultant Clinical Psychologist and CBT therapist (NHS & MOD) and University Tutor (University of Oxford); Founding Fellow of the Oxford Cognitive Therapy Centre.

Helen is a clinician specialising in the psychological sequelae of developmental trauma. She has initiated training courses in CBT for OCTC and for the University of Oxford and has presented internationally for over thirty years.

Author: The ABC of CBT (2020, Sage Publications) Co-author:  Introduction to CBT: skills and applications (1^st, 2^nd, 3^rdeditions):                   …Kennerley.H., Kirk.J. & Westbrook.D. (2017, Sage Publications)

Professor Udo Kischka: Retired Consultant Neurologist in Neuro-rehabilitation(NHS) , Academic Visitor (University of Oxford) and Research Visiting Fellow (Oxford Brookes University)

Udo is both a psychologist and a medical doctor. When working he specialised in stroke rehabilitation and was an active researcher.

Co-editor: Handbook of Clinical Neuropsychology (1^st, 2^nd editions): Gurd. J., Kischka.U. & Marshall.J. (2010: Oxford University Press)
Co-author: Head Injury: Daisley.A., Tams.R. & Kischka.U. (2009: Oxford University Press)

Surviving Stroke:  A text for professionals, patients and their families. Co -written by Kennerley and Kischka (2020, Robinson)

https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/helen-kennerley/surviving-stroke/9781472144454/