Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Keith Cicerone
- Preface
- Section 1 Background and theory
- Section 2 Group interventions
- 5 The Understanding Brain Injury (UBI) Group
- 6 The Cognitive Group, Part 1: Attention and Goal Management
- 7 The Cognitive Group, Part 2: Memory
- 8 The Mood Management Group
- 9 The Psychological Support Group
- 10 Working with families in neuropsychological rehabilitation
- 11 Communication Group
- 12 Practically based project groups
- Section 3 Case illustrations
- Section 4 Outcomes
- Index
- Plate section
5 - The Understanding Brain Injury (UBI) Group
from Section 2 - Group interventions
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Keith Cicerone
- Preface
- Section 1 Background and theory
- Section 2 Group interventions
- 5 The Understanding Brain Injury (UBI) Group
- 6 The Cognitive Group, Part 1: Attention and Goal Management
- 7 The Cognitive Group, Part 2: Memory
- 8 The Mood Management Group
- 9 The Psychological Support Group
- 10 Working with families in neuropsychological rehabilitation
- 11 Communication Group
- 12 Practically based project groups
- Section 3 Case illustrations
- Section 4 Outcomes
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Introduction
The Understanding Brain Injury (UBI) Group, it could be argued, is the most important group of the programme at the Oliver Zangwill Centre (OZC) for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. It is, perhaps, the main way of helping clients understand what has happened to them, how they have been affected by their brain injuries and what kind of recovery to expect. This information forms the basis of increasing awareness and self-esteem, and significantly contributes to the process of developing both a ‘shared understanding’ and a safe ‘therapeutic milieu’ as described in Chapter 4. Although the consequences of brain injury (e.g. memory, attention and emotional problems) are covered in more detail in other groups, without the knowledge and acceptance that we try to instil in the UBI Group, the other groups are thought to be less likely to succeed.
Central to the philosophy of the Centre is giving clients, where possible, the opportunity to develop good awareness of their strengths and weaknesses, and learn to self-advocate. Brain injury can be a bewildering experience, particularly in the context of cognitive impairments that make it more difficult to notice, understand or respond to problems. For the vast majority of clients, knowledge of brain injury and its consequences is limited to the client's own prior experience of it. One of the aims of the UBI Group is to normalize the consequences of brain injury; the educational, seminar-style format is used to describe how the brain works and how it may be affected by injury.
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- Neuropsychological RehabilitationTheory, Models, Therapy and Outcome, pp. 68 - 80Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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