Thursday 13th October 2011
Risk is becoming an increasingly important area of concern in the rehabilitation of people with acquired brain injury (ABI). Parallels with mental health are inevitable, but there are also important differences.
These similarities and disparities need to be acknowledged and discussed as the current tendency to import risk measurement tools, policies and procedures from forensic psychiatry do not always sit comfortably in the different context of neurobehavioural rehabilitation.
The all day conference drew together experts from a variety of disciplines and settings who enabled the debate on what constitutes ‘risk’ when this concept is applied to people with acquired brain injury, how it is measured, and how it is managed within a range of different contexts.
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Dangerous cocktails: ABI and Substance Misuse
Dr Howard Jackson, Clinical Director & Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, Transitional Rehabilitation Unit Ltd, St Helens
Risk assessment in the 21st century: Towards an integrative model of risk in sexual offending
Professor Anthony Beech, Professor in Criminological Psychology, School of Psychology, University of Birmingham
Aggression after brain injury: An acquired social cognitive deficit?
Dr Ryan Aguiar, Lead Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist, Forensic Neurorehabilitation Service, Ashworth Hospital
The three R’s: Relationships, Resilience and Risk after brain injury in childhood
Dr James Tonks, Clinical Psychologist in Paediatrics, School of Psychology, University of Exeter
Risk in Community ABI Settings: Attitudes and Professional Relationships
Dr. Stephen Weatherhead, Clinical Psychologist, Lecturer in Research Methods & Clinical Tutor, School of Health and Medicine Lancaster University. Samantha Baker, Trainee Clinical Psychologist, University of Liverpool.
Rehabilitation of adolescents with challenging behaviour and acquired brain injury; the challenges of measuring and managing risk
Dr Jennifer Brooks, Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychiatry Service, St Andrew’s Healthcare and Dr Sally Cubbin, Consultant Psychiatrist, Neuropsychiatry Service, St Andrew’s Healthcare
Directionality of risk among Traumatic Brain Injury patients: Which way now?
Dr Lorraine Childs, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Neuropsychiatry Service, St Andrew’s Healthcare
For further details on St Andrew’s National Brain Injury Centre please visit www.stah.org/braininjury