Brain Injury Awareness (Virtual)
This course introduces brain injury, helping learners understand its causes, effects, and how it can impact an individual’s physical, cognitive, and emotional wellbeing, while promoting supportive and person-centred care.
Learning Outcomes
The Brain Injury Awareness course provides learners with an understanding of acquired and traumatic brain injury and how these conditions can affect individuals in different ways. Participants will explore what is meant by acquired brain injury and traumatic brain injury, gaining clarity on how injuries can occur and the differences between these types of brain injury.
The course introduces key terms and definitions associated with brain injury, helping learners build confidence in understanding and using appropriate language when discussing the condition. Participants will develop awareness of how brain injuries can impact individuals physically, cognitively, emotionally, and behaviourally.
Learners will explore how brain injuries can affect people in different ways, recognising that the effects can vary widely depending on the area of the brain affected and the severity of the injury. The session highlights how individuals may experience changes in memory, communication, mobility, behaviour, and emotional wellbeing, and the importance of recognising each person’s unique needs.
The training also focuses on interventions that can provide effective support for individuals living with a brain injury. Participants will explore a range of supportive approaches, including rehabilitation, communication strategies, environmental adjustments, and person-centred care techniques that promote independence and improve quality of life.
Throughout the course, emphasis is placed on understanding the individual, adapting support, and promoting recovery and wellbeing through informed and compassionate care.
By the end of this course, participants will understand acquired and traumatic brain injury, recognise their effects on individuals, understand key terminology, and apply appropriate interventions to support those affected.
- Understand what acquired and traumatic brain injury is
- Understand key terms and meanings associated with acquired and traumatic brain injury
- Understand how acquired and traumatic brain injury can affect different people in different ways
- Understand the interventions which can provide effective support
- £Free(LSCP Members)
- £20(Non-Members)
In order to attend any of these sessions a booking form needs to be completed (even for sessions ‘Free to Members’, as we need to account for room capacity and a fair distribution of free places among organisations).