Advanced Brain Injury Rehabilitation

Advanced Brain Injury Rehabilitation (Level 2) Online Professional Training Program

A Lifespan Approach to Brain Injury: Supporting Clients at Every Stage

Date: TBA

Prerequisite Required: Level 1 Neurorehabilitation – Assisting Recovery & Function in Everyday Life Following Brain Injury (No Exceptions)

Full Registration Fee: $600
Group and member discounts available!

Program Description:

This Certificate Training Program is designed to increase your knowledge of brain injury across the lifespan and to appreciate factors which make brain injury rehabilitation more challenging. 

Day 1
Neurodevelopment and Neuroplasticity
Early Childhood Development & ABI
Youth/Young Adulthood & ABI
Older Adults, Aging & ABI

Day 2
Emotional Regulation & ABI
Mood-based Interactions with ABI
Suicide Risk in Individuals with ABI
Neuropsychological Treatments
Neuropharmacological Treatments

Day 3
Facts that affect outcomes (e.g., pain, sleep, secondary injuries, social/environmental factors)

This program is an extension of OBIA’s Level 1 Neurorehabilitation: Assisting Recovery & Function in Everyday Life Following Brain Injury program.

Who Should Attend:

This course will be extremely valuable for professionals, parents, siblings, or caregivers who want to deepen their knowledge and understanding of brain injury across the lifespan. 

What You’ll Gain:

This course will give you the knowledge and tools to better support clients or individuals of all ages:

• Strengthen your expertise across the lifespan, from early childhood to older adulthood.
• Gain practical strategies for addressing emotional regulation, suicide risk and treatment approaches.
• Improve client outcomes by addressing factors like pain, sleep, secondary injuries and social environment.
• Connect and learn alongside professionals and caregivers in the ABI community.

Professors

Dawn Good, PhD, CPsych is an Associate Professor, and past Chair and Director, at Brock University in St. Catharines, Ontario, in the Departments of Psychology and Neuroscience. Her research is in the field of acquired brain injury in both paediatric and adult populations. She is a Research Associate of the Lifespan Development Research Institute at Brock University and a Registered Psychologist (Ontario) specializing in the fields of neuropsychology and cognitive rehabilitation, licensed to practice in the province of Ontario. She is a Director with the Association of State and Provincial Psychology Boards, and a writer for the licensing EPPP (Examination for the Professional Practice in Psychology) exam for North American licensure and deemed an expert witness in neuropsychology for both civilian and criminal courts in Ontario. Her research grants have spanned the areas of paediatric acquired brain injury (ABI) and cognitive functions/strategies for persons with ABI and was acknowledged by the Canadian Institute of Health Research as a Canada 150 Health Researchers: Discoveries for Life. She also serves as a Consultant Neuropsychologist to brain injury rehabilitation and mental health programs across Ontario.
Julie Baker, MA, PhD is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Counselling & Clinical Psychology at D’Youville University, Buffalo, NY in the Doctoral Psychology program (American Psychological Association – Accredited, on contingency). Since 2010 she has been a part-time instructor at Brock University in the Department of Psychology and is an affiliate member of the Neuropsychology Cognitive Research Lab at Brock University. She completed her degrees in Psychology at Brock University with an emphasis in behavioural neuroscience and neuropsychology. Dr. Baker teaches graduate (PsyD, MA Psychology) and undergraduate (Psychology, Neuroscience majors) courses in brain and behaviour, neuropsychology, clinical psychopharmacology, psychometrics, health psychology, developmental psychology, trauma psychology, and cognitive and affective processes, amongst others. She was a Clinical Neuropsychology Intern in the Mental Health division of the Niagara Health System – St. Catharines site and is currently an Intern in Clinical Neuropsychology in a private practice. Dr. Baker has held a variety of scholarships and research grants each with a focus on neuroemotional and neurocognitive sequelae in persons with neurological compromise, particularly traumatic brain injury, including indices of atypical indices of sympathetic nervous system and/or neuroendocrine reactivity in response to stress. This research has been published and presented at a variety of international (e.g., International Brain Injury Association; American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine; North American Brain Injury Society) and national (e.g., Canadian Psychological Association) conferences.
Angela Dzyundzyak MA, PhD is an intern and psychometrist in Clinical Neuropsychology as well as a part-time instructor at Brock University. She completed an internship in Clinical Neuropsychology with children and adults at St. Catharines General Hospital (Mental Health division) in 2017 and since then has been working with a variety of populations (e.g., mild to severe TBI/ABI, neurodivergent, and neurotypical, individuals) engaging residential, case study and individual neurocognitive/neuroemotional assessment and treatment programming in a Clinical Neuropsychology Private Practice setting. Dr. Dzyundzyak has been involved with the OBIA Brock Certification program since 2007, first as a student and then as a Research Associate to support the development and updating of materials for the various Level I and II courses. She completed her BSc in Neuroscience (Neuropsychology stream) and her graduate studies in Psychology (Behavioural Neuroscience stream). Her research interests are in the neuroscience of reward processing, behavioural addictions (e.g., gambling), and individual differences (e.g., personality attributes such as impulsivity, history of head injury). Dr. Dzyundzyak has been involved in teaching at Brock University since 2012 and lectured and/or instructed courses in areas of neuropsychology, neuropsychopharmacology, neuroscience as well as research design/statistics. She has also served as a statistical consultant for a variety of research projects in the Department of Psychology, Department of Teacher Education and Environmental Sustainability Research Centre at Brock University.

Registration is closed.

Please note: Payment in full must be received in advance of the program. A cancellation fee of $75 will be applied if notice is not received by 48 hours prior to the start of the course. Cancellations made less than 48 hours are non-refundable, and no credits will be issued.

Please use the event/course registration portal to sign up for any current courses by clicking on the button below. For registration and payment by cheque, or if your organization requires an invoice, please contact training@obia.on.ca or phone 905-641-8877 ext. 102.

Please direct all inquiries to:

Leah Hughes, Training Coordinator & Special Projects
Ontario Brain Injury Association,
PO Box 2338,
St. Catharines, ON L2R 7R9
Ph: (905) 641-8877 ext. 102 or 1-855-642-8877
Email: training@obia.on.ca