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LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Upon completion of this course, participants will be able to:

  • Identify and explain the definitions, classifications, and stages of TBI. This includes understanding the differences between mild, moderate, and severe TBI.

  • Describe at least two ways to adapt psychotherapy to accommodate cognitive and language limitations in order to address the unique challenges faced by TBI patients.

  • Differentiate the role of different healthcare professionals in TBI management, and enhance communication with other providers, while also effectively involving care partners effectively.

Course Summary

This course features Dr. Renee Madathil, an experienced Rehabilitation Neuropsychologist, discussing the fundamentals of traumatic brain injury (TBI). The course is designed to educate mental health professionals about the complexities of TBI, emphasizing the need for creative and tailored approaches in psychotherapy. Dr. Madathil highlights the importance of understanding brain-behavior relationships and offers insights into various stages of TBI recovery.

Mental health professionals will benefit significantly from this course as it highlights the need for interdisciplinary care and the role of therapists in the recovery journey. Special attention is given to psychotherapy approaches for TBI patients, including cognitive-behavioral and mindfulness-based strategies. This webinar is an invaluable resource for professionals seeking to improve their understanding and skills in treating individuals with TBI, ensuring they can provide more effective and empathetic care.

Course curriculum

Created & Published: March 7, 2024

    1. Course Information

      FREE PREVIEW

    2. Fundamentals of Traumatic Brain Injury: Course Content

      FREE PREVIEW

    3. Fundamentals of TBI: Attendance Attestation

    4. Fundamentals of Traumatic Brain Injury: Post Test

    5. Fundamentals of TBI: Course Evaluation

About this course

  • $27.00

Instructor

Rehabilitation Neuropsychologist at URMC Renee Madathil, PhD

Dr. Madathil currently serves as an outpatient Rehabilitation Neuropsychologist at URMC. She received her doctorate in Clinical Psychology from The University of Montana, and went on to complete her residency and post-doctoral fellowship in both Rehabilitation Psychology and Neuropsychology at The University of Washington Medical Center and Harborview Trauma Center. In addition, she completed a one-year research fellowship at the Seattle VA examining the effects of repeated, blast-related mTBI in Veterans. Dr. Madathil provides psychological services with the goal of increasing function and quality of life for persons living with chronic illness, injury, and/or disability. Her current clinical practice focuses on assisting individuals and their support systems in coping with, and adapting to, the effects of injury or illness during and after hospitalization. She also specializes in brain-behavior relationships, and the neuropsychological assessment and treatment of neurological disorders.

Learn more about Brain Injury

Our course is designed for mental health professionals like you, seeking to deepen their understanding and skills in TBI management.

Approved CE Provider

PSYCHOLOGISTS
Find Empathy is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. Find Empathy maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
COUNSELORS
Find Empathy has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 7257. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. Find Empathy is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs.
SOCIAL WORKERS
Find Empathy, #1817, is approved as an ACE provider to offer social work continuing education by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB) Approved Continuing Education (ACE) program. Regulatory boards are the final authority on courses accepted for continuing education credit. ACE provider approval period: 5/14/2023-5/14/2026.   Social workers completing this course receive 1 continuing education credit.



How to Take this Course & Criteria to Receive CE Credit

To obtain a certificate of completion for continuing education credits associated with this course, please follow the following steps:

  • ENROLL in this course and create an Empathy account

  • COMPLETE the course content

  • TAKE THE POST-TEST assessment and achieve a passing grade of at least 75%

Remember, full attendance is required for all CE activities. This means you will be asked to certify that you listened, watched, or read the entire podcast episode.
Once you have completed the above steps, your course certificate will automatically populate for download and will automatically be sent to the email linked to your account. It can be downloaded immediately and will be available for future download.

Accommodations

It is absolutely critical that our program exemplifies accessibility for all participants.

We seek to ensure all participants are able to fully, equally, and independently access the educational content. Our goal is to have a website that is perceivable, operable, understandable, and robust. If you have any difficulty navigating the website, we want to know! Please contact us at [email protected].

While our educational offerings are primarily in podcast format, we also provide a written transcript for each course. It will be available on the course landing page and available for download in PDF format.

CE credits require a post-test assessment. The assessment is untimed and provided in writing on the course website. However, for individuals with visual impairments, or those that may benefit from an orally presented post-test and program evaluation, contact us. We will work with you to find an alternative option for completing the course post-test and program evaluation.

We remain available and open to ANY additional requests for format modification or additional assistance.

If any accommodations are needed to enroll or participate in the course, or complete the post-test and course evaluation, please contact us at [email protected].

Access & Expiration Information

COURSE ACCESS
Once enrolling in a course, you will have 30 days to complete the post-test and course evaluation. If your access lapses before completing all tasks, you will need to re-enroll.

CERTIFICATE ACCESS
Once you have completed the post-test and program evaluation, your certificate will be immediately available for download. Access to the certificate will expire after 365 days. Find Empathy will keep course certificates on file for 7 years. If a certificate is needed, contact [email protected].

POST TEST RETAKE POLICY
You are allotted 3 retries to achieve the acceptable 75% passing grade.

Additional Information

WHO IS THE COURSE FOR?
This course is intended for psychologists, social workers, mental health counselors, and therapists.

The instructional level is introductory to intermediate. While the course provides a comprehensive overview of traumatic brain injury, professionals need to already have a foundational grasp on therapeutic principles such as CBT and mindfulness in order to adapt those treatments to the specific needs of people living with traumatic brain injury.

COURSE FORMAT
The primary format of the course is a non-interactive distance-learning recorded video or audio continuing education course.

To ensure our course material is accessible, the video includes subtitles.

COMMERCIAL SUPPORT
There is no known commercial support or conflict of interest for this CE program, content, or its instructor.

QUESTIONS?
Contact us at [email protected]. We will do our best to return your email within 24-48 hours during business hours: Monday through Friday, 9am to 5pm eastern.

If you have any questions, concerns, or grievances please email us at [email protected].

You can also see our grievance policy via the following link: https://findempathy.com/grievance

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