Instructional Course

Clinical Practice (assessment, diagnosis, treatment, knowledge translation/EBP, implementation science, program development)

Brain Injury

Technology (e.g. robotics, assistive technology, mHealth)

IC5: A Guide to Best-Practice Interdisciplinary Goal Setting in Clinical Practice Presentation (843649)

Presenter(s)

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  Penny Trayner, BSc (Hons), CPsychol, AFBPsS

  Paediatric Clinical Neuropsychologist
  Clinical Neuropsychology Services Ltd.
  Manchester, England
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  Andrew Bateman, PhD

  Reader
  University of Essex
  Colchester, England
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  Merryn Dowson, BSc (Hons), MBPsS

  Assistant Psychologist / Research Assistant
  Clinical Neuropsychology Services Ltd.
  Manchester, England

  Handouts

NOTE: Attendees are expected to watch the recorded course anytime at their convenience & then JOIN the one-hour LIVE discussion with presenters & other rehab. pros on Sat 20Mar.

Abstract

Goal setting is crucial in neurorehabilitation for encouraging collaboration in multi-disciplinary teams, motivating patients, and tracking progress. The key components of good goal setting, however, are often misunderstood. This instructional course aims to outline the best-practice process for goal-setting in clinical neurorehabilitation practice, resolving confusion around terminology and interdisciplinary collaboration. The course will address barriers to change that can prevent the adoption of new goal-setting practices, and suggest avenues of change. Understanding the difficulty of applying theoretical procedures to clinical practice, the course will also offer an opportunity for operationalizing the new skills learned with real-world clinical data.

Learning Objectives:

• Describe the importance of inter-disciplinary goal setting within neurorehabilitation.
• Describe the best-practice / gold-standard process of goal setting, including advantages of each stage.
• Identify barriers in implementing the best-practice goal-setting processes in existing clinical practice, and possible avenues for overcoming these.
• Confidently use appropriate goal setting terminology and processes in clinical practice.
• Apply software to increase the accessibility of best-practice goal setting to clinical practice.