NCRI Compass Collaborative

Senior Clinical Psychologist, Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service
Canterbury District Health Board
Christchurch, New Zealand
 
 

Mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI) can result in persisting disability in a significant minority of cases even though complete recovery is expected. Such poor outcomes and the factors influencing them remain poorly understood. While research in other health conditions suggests that psychological factors such as coping styles and patient beliefs about symptoms and recovery can have powerful explanatory utility, these constructs have not been systematically explored in MTBI. Debbie will present some of her research examining whether these factors can contribute to understanding and predicting clinical outcomes after MTBI.
She is a Clinical Psychologist with a strong background in neuropsychological rehabilitation and over the past nine years has been co-ordinating a specialist Concussion Clinic for the Canterbury District Health Board in Christchurch New Zealand.
 
 

There is no charge for these events but please contact us so that we can keep track of numbers attending.
 

• Tel: 020 7848 5584
• Email: sian.best@kcl.ac.uk

 
 
This event is part of a series throughout the year. If you cannot attend this event but might be interested in future sessions, let us know and we will contact you with further details.
 
A pdf of slides from the July seminar "Therapeutic exercise in patients with incurable cancer" is downloadable from the foot of this page.
 

 
 
This series of Open Seminars is part of The Compass Research Collaborative, (external link) , an NCRI Supportive and Palliative Care Collaborative.