We have extended the end date for our survey about living through a pandemic and lockdowns with an #ABI until end of August. We’d love to hear as many perspectives as possible! Please share BrainInjuryAustralia Summer Foundation genyus network Synapse - Australia's Brain Injury Organisation Stroke Foundation

So thrilled to have this paper out in the world - our initial evaluation of the VaLiANT (valued living after neurological trauma) group with fab neuropsych student Nick Sathananthan at the helm & dream team Eric Morris Bleydy Dimech-Betancourt David Gillanders et al tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

It’s the most vulnerable kids who most often get suspended and expelled from school. Those who have disability, are Indigenous or live in out of home care. Sometimes a mix of those 3 theconversation.com/suspensions-an…

Look, I'm not saying that shaming the Prime Minister on the world's most prominent billboard about his lack of climate action made him announce just now that he's going to COP26 — but I'm also not, not saying that. #JokeKeeper

Are you interested in learning about how to support people in navigating relationships, sex & intimacy following brain injury? Join us for ASSBI Melbourne Student webinar & panel w/ Professor Emma Power, Claire Lynch, Elinor Fraser & @Jill_HA_Hwang More details below!

Check out our published protocol outlining the rationale and design for the Phase II randomised controlled trial of VaLiANT (valued living after neurological trauma) Dana Wong Eric Morris Bleydy Dimech-Betancourt David Gillanders frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

And now Dana Wong presenting her great work investigating ACT and cognitive rehab based intervention for people with acquired brain injury WCCBT 2023 Nick Sathananthan

#NRSIG2023 Dana Wong Nick Sathananthan The same things are important to people regardless of whether or not they have had an #BrainInjury (i.e. relationships with close others), but ppl with ABI experience more difficulty living in line with those values & that leads to lower mood.

Out now open access - our new meta-analysis, led by Alex Davies for her Masters research, showing that combined #cognitive and #psychological interventions result in meaningful benefits for people with #ABI link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Now out (yay!) - paper on our new accessible measure of valued living, the VLQ-CS. Hope it's useful for evaluating valued living post-ABI & measuring outcomes of valued living interventions #ACT Professor Emma Power Karen Borschmann David Lawson Nick Sathananthan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

So proud of Nick Sathananthan for this latest paper from his PhD showing how addressing cognitive and emotional barriers to valued action in the VaLiANT group intervention can help rebuild identity after acquired brain injury Eric Morris David Gillanders tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

Out now - paper led by Michaela Grech characterising young #stroke presentations, pathways of care, and support for ‘invisible’ difficulties in a retrospective clinical audit study - showing cognitive and psychological needs were overlooked publish.csiro.au/IB/IB23059

Very proud of our pilot RCT evaluating the VaLiANT (Valued Living After Neurological Trauma) program - it was feasible & acceptable, with promising signals of efficacy, & useful pointers to improvements we can make prior to definitive trial. Nick Sathananthan tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…