Symposium

Brain Injury

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

Interdisciplinary Rehabilitation: An Approach to Return to Work (849479)

Presenter(s)

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  Paige Salinas, LCSW, CBIS

  Clinical Director
  Learning Services
  Aurora, Colorado

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• 

  April Groff, PhD

  Clinical Psychologist/Regional Program Director
  Learning Services
  Raleigh, North Carolina

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio
• 

  Jennifer Featherston, PhD, LPC, CRC, CVE, EAGALA Certified

  Program Manager
  Pate Rehabilitation
  Anna, Texas

  Presentation Slides Presentation + Audio

This session will discuss the importance of patient-centered practices and how it can promote long term independence related to return to work goals.  Benefits to an interdisciplinary approach impacting return to work outcomes will be explored.  We will also identify the stages of vocational rehabilitation, discuss assessments, work training and how these functional interventions will contribute to a transition back into the workplace.

Learning Objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will be able to identify how employment outcomes for individuals with traumatic brain injury can be improved with an interdisciplinary approach within rehabilitation
• Identify three key components of patient-centered practice and how to implement these practices when working with patients return to work goals.
• Upon completion, participants will be able to explore stages of vocational rehabilitation to include assessment, functional intervention and work training.
• Discuss outcomes of vocational rehabilitation services for individuals with traumatic brain injury.