One of the world’s leading practitioners of Positive Behaviour Support following Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) will share results from a ‘world first’ controlled trial from 50 Victorian Transport Accident Commission clients with severe TBI and challenging behaviours’.
New York Belvedere Health Services chief knowledge officer, Dr Tim Feeney will deliver the pre-conference workshop at the 8th National Brain Injury Conference in November.
Positive Behaviour Support is a comprehensive set of research-based strategies used to decrease ‘challenging behaviours’ from an understanding of behaviour patterns, making changes in the person’s environment to eliminating triggers for such behaviours and teaching prosocial skills.
Each year, around 1,000 Australians sustain a severe TBI, the result of external force applied to the head caused by motor vehicle accidents, assaults or falls. Severe TBI can cause permanent and profound physical and cognitive disability. Around half of the survivors of severe TBI, will also manifest ‘challenging behaviours’ such as impulsivity, irritability, verbal and sometimes physical, aggression.
These behaviours are reported by survivors and their families as being the most disabling aspect of their brain injury. The more severe the TBI, the more severe the behaviour and unchecked, can worsen with time.
The conference will be held at the University of Sydney from November 23-25, 2020.
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