Specialist Community Nurse

Can offer support, assessment and intervention following brain injury. This can be either on a one to one basis or in a group setting, either at Headway or in the community.

Brain Injury Education

The Society for Cognitive Rehabilitation, Recommendations for Best Practice for Cognitive Rehabiliation recommends where possible, all individuals with brain injury should attend an education group at least once that it should take place in a formal education group and in individual sessions. It should be seen as an ongoing process rather than only occuring on one occasion.

Headway Dorset offer Brain Injury Education groups that run periodically throughout the year in both Poole and Dorchester. These groups run once a week for three weeks. Topics covered are the brain, how it works and brain injury, effects of Brain Injury and Self Awareness and Goal setting.  At the end of the group programme, people are offered the opportunity to continue with cognitive rehabiliation on and individual or group basis if this is appropiate.

Cognitive rehabiliation groups can also be offered. These may consist of a number of sessions looking at only one area of cognition such as memory or looking at all areas. These groups are offered to inform the person and to offer possible solutions, such as the employment of compensatory strategies.