+ The Neuropsychological Rehabilitation
Special Interst Group
7 th Satellite Symposium on Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

in conjunction with the
meeting of

The Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Special Interest Group
of the World Federation for NeuroRehabilitation (WFNR)


Krakow
Poland
5th - 6th July 2010


A multidisciplinary conference incorporating neuropsychology, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy, Speech and language therapy, social work, medicine and nursing.

 

 
Committee
 
  Convenor: Professor Barbara Wilson, Cambridge, UK
Dr Steffen-Malik Hoegh, Stouby, DK  
  Program Chair: Professor James Malec, Indianapolis, USA
Dr Teresa A. Ashman, New York, USA
Dr Andrew Bateman, Cambridge, UK
Dr Thomas Bodner, Innsbruck, A
Dr Sara Cavaco, Porto, PT
Professor Keith Cicerone, Edison, USA
Dr Angela Colantonio, Toronto, CA
Dr Fofi Constantinidou, Nicosia, CY
Professor Jonathan Evans, Glasgow, UK
Dr Fergus Gracey, Ely, UK
PD Dr. Reiner Kaschel, Ebersbach / Fils, D
Dr Dr Jan Lexell, Lund, SE
Professor Emilia Lojek, Warsaw, PL
Dr Tamara Ownsworth, Brisbane, AUS
Professor Jennie Ponsford, Clayton, AUS
Dr Ronald T. Seel, Atlanta, USA
Professor Robyn Tate, Sydney, AUS
Professor Jean-Luc Truelle, Paris, F
Dr Ann Watts, South Africa
 

 

 
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Evaluation - Feedback Forms
 
 
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We will also try to make the registration process easier.

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Program
 
 
Day 1: Monday 5th July 2010
 
   07:30 - 08:50
Arrival - Registration - Fixing Posters
 
 
   08:50 - 09:30
OPENING ADDRESS
 
   08:50 - 09:00   James Malec (Program Chair)  
      Welcome and Introductionices  
   09:00 - 09:30 Talk 1 B. A. Wilson  
      -"It is not just the kind of head injury but the kind of head": Factors influencing recovery from traumatic brain injury  
 
Session 1
Brain Rehabilitation Programs
Chair: Fofi Constantinidou
 
   09:30 - 09:50 Talk 2 J. Ponsford, L. Tweedly and N. Lee  
      lnvestigation of a brief intervention to minimise alcohol use following traumatic brain injury  
   09:50 - 10:10 Talk 3 I.Altmann, S. Swick, D. Parrott and J. F. Malec  
      Effectiveness of Community-Based Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain lnjury (TBI) for 489 Program Completers Compared to those Precipitously Discharged  
   10:10 - 10:30 Talk 4 E. Daniels-Zide, D. Biderman and Y. Ben-Yishay  
      Therapeutic alliance of significant others with the staff of a holistic day program: An important facilitator of the successful response of TB1 patients to neuropsychological rehabilitative interventions  
   10:30 - 10:50 Talk 5 C. Campbell, K. McCoy and M. Kelly  
      Social Cognition Rehabilitation in Veterans with TB1 and PTSD  
   10:50 - 11:00 Discussion Plenum  
         
   11:00 - 11:30
MORNING COFFEE AND POSTER SESSION
 

 
Session 2
Methods and Measurement
Chair: Robyn Tate
 
   11:30 -11:50 Talk 6 J.-L. Truelle, K. von Wild and N. von Steinbüchel
 
      What Quality of Life after Traumatic Brain Injury?
QOLIBRI, a novel disease-specific Quality of Life Meas
ure
 
   11:50 -12:10 Talk 7 A. Bateman and S. Simblett  
      Assessing change in executive functioning using a Rasch modelling approach  
   12:10 -12:30 Talk 8 J. Evans  
      Statistical analysis for Single case experimental design research studies in neuropsychological rehabilitation: controversies, recent developments and some recommendations  
   12:30 - 12:50 Talk 9 M. Perdices, R. L. Tate, A. Pfaff, G. Herkes, A. Hodgkinson, P. Davidand A. Cassel  
      Predicting duration of post-traumatic amnesia (PTA) across the spectrum of traumatic brain injury (TBI) severity: can it I be done?  
   12:50 - 13:00 Discussion Plenum  
         

   13:00 - 14:00
LUNCH
 


 
Session 3
Clinical Assessment
Chair: Jean-Luc Truelle
 
   14:00 -14:45 Datablitz 1 B. Wilson, A. Hinchcliffe and G.Florschutz  
      Neuropsychological Assessment of the Locked-in-Syndrome: Challenges, Consequences and Cognitive Functioning  
    Datablitz 2 A. Duckworth, H. Williams, M. Bunnage and L. Mounce  
      Predictive and Mediating Factores of Autobiographical Memory Retrieval following Acquired Brain lnjury  
    Datablitz 3 S. Simblett and A. Bateman  
      Dimensions of the dysexecutive questionaire (DEX) examined using Rasch analysis  
    Datablitz 4 R. L. Tate, C. Taylor, M. Perdices, V. Aird and A. McCarry  
      Differentiating between spontaneous recovery and treatment-specific effects in the post-acute phase after traumatic brain injury  
    Datablitz 5 M. Darcy and J. Tierney  
      Using the WHIM for Goal Setting in Minimally Conscious States  

 
Session 4
Pediatric Issues
Chair: Teresa Ashmann
 
   14:45 - 15:05 Talk 10 J. Tonks, W. H. Williams, I. Framton, P. Yates and A. Slater
 
      Peer-relationship difficulties in children with brain injuries: comparisons with children in mental health Services and main-stream schools  
   15:05 - 15:25 Talk 11 M. Chevignard, C. Soo, J. Galvin and S. Eren  
      A systematic review of ecological measures of cognitive functioning for children with acquired brain injury  
   15:25 - 15:45 Talk 12 M. Sambuco, S. Lah, N. Brookes and C. Catroppa  
      Paediatric traumatic brain injury: Siblings outcome  
   15:45 - 16:05 Talk 13 C. Soo, R. L. Tate, V. Anderson and M.-C. Waugh  
      Support needs after childhood acquired brain injury: disentangling developmental and brain injury issues  
   16:05 - 16:15 Discussion Plenum  
         
   16:15 - 16:45
AFTERNOON TEA AND POSTER SESSION
 

 
Session 5
Cognitive Rehabilitation
Chair: Andrew Bateman
 
   16:45 - 17:05 Talk 14 E. Bengoetxea, J. Pena, N. Ojeda, R. Segarra, P.M. Sanchez, E. Elizagarate, J. Garcia, J. I. Eguiluz, J. Ezcurra and M. Gutierrez
 
      Improvements in executive funtioning and processing speed after cognitive rehabilitation with REHACOP: Schizophrenia and First-episode psychosis  
   17:05 - 17:25 Talk 15 P.Brown, R. Morris and J. Evans  
      Investigating the effect of periodic auditory alerts in conjunction with goal management training on a complex virtual reality task in individuals with acqired brain injury  
   17:25 - 17:45 Talk 16 R. Nair and N. Lincoln  
      Memory Rehabilitation following Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, and Traumatic Brainnjury: A Mixed-methods Randomised Controlled Trial  
   17:45 - 18:05 Talk 17 V. Baldwin and T. Powell  
      Factors influencing the uptake of memory compensations: A qualitative analysis  
   18:05 - 18:15 Discussion Plenum  
         
 
Session 6
Rehabilitation for the Real World (Part I)
Chair: Jennie Ponsford
 
   18:15 -19:00 Datablitz 6 F. Talbot, A. Starza-Smith and A. Hart  
      Implications for the rehabilitation drawn from a correlational study of health related quality of life (HRQL) and'neuropsychological consequences for children and adolescents following encephalitis  
    Datablitz 7 L. Birkett-Swan, N. Alderman and J. Evans  
      The wwwuse of alerting cues in the rehabilitation of executive dysfunction in the 'real world'  
    Datablitz 8 G. Hardy, F. Gracey, A. Bateman, J. Evans, J. Fish, E. Greenfield, J. Ingham, D. Malley, T. Manly and B. Wilson  
      A case study on the effects of Content-free Cueing and Goal Management Training on day-to-day psychological and cognitive functioning  
    Datablitz 9 J. Douglas and C. Mitchell  
      Coping with Communication Breakdown following Severe Traumatic Brain lniury  
    Datablitz 10 L. Weiner, E. Bizet and J. Bruckmann  
      Cognitive Remediation Therapy of working memory and executive deficits in Asperger Svndrome: preliminary  
   19:00 -19:20   Poster Session  
   19:20 -19:45   Removing Posters  


   20:30
EVENING EVENT AT THE FRANCISCAN CHURCH AND MONASTERY
 
   
 

 

 
Day 2: Tuesday 6th July 2010
 

   08:30 - 9:00 Fixing Posters
 

 
Session 7
Aging, Stroke, and Dementia
Chair: Jon Evans
 
   09:00 - 09:20 Talk 18 V. Nesterova, V. Grigoryeva and Y. Sagildina
 
      The influence of ideomotor and constructional limb apraxia on disability after the left hemisphere stroke  
   09:20 - 09:40 Talk 19 F. Constantinidou and C. Charilaou  
      Neurocognitive Aging and Quality of Life in Greek Cypriot Adults  
   09:40 - 10:00 Talk 20 B. Romero, C. Jonas, C. Lahmeyer, F. Müller and M. W. Riepe  
      The impact of a short-term multicomponent residential treatment Programme on cognitive functions and activities of daily living in persons with dementia  
   10:00 - 10:15 Discussion Plenum  
         
 
Session 8
Emotions and Coping
Chair: Fergus Gracey
 
   10:15 -11:00 Datablitz 11 J. Tonks, W. H. Williams, I. Frampton, P. Yates and A. Slater  
      Resilience and executive dysfunction: A comparision between children with brain injury and non-ijured controls  
    Datablitz 12 L. Birkett-Swan, H. Mortimer and M. Montenegro  
      Prevalence of aggression in a female brain injury unit: Do women differ to men?  
    Datablitz 13 A. Champion, N. Jago and A. Thomson  
      lncreased self-efficacy following brain injury educationlrehabilitation group intervention  
    Datablitz 14 W. H. Williams, J. Jetten, J. Jones, A. Harris, L. Mounce, A. Reuben and A. Haslam  
      Does Acute Traumatic Stress predict Mild Traumatic Brain lniury (MTBI) symptoms?  
    Datablitz 15 S. Palmer and C. Herbert  
      Rediscoverinq emotions aqain: Systematic exploration of self-reported absence of emotion after probable ventromedial frontal lobe injury  
         
   11:00 - 11:30
MORNING COFFEE AND POSTER SESSION
 

 
Session 9
Technology
Chair: Reiner Kaschel
 
   11:30 -11:50 Talk 21 A. Jansari and L. F. Tan
 
      Can meditation help to improve control of Brain-Computer Interface devices to operate neuroprotheses?  
   11:50 -12:10 Talk 22 A. Barnes  
      Internet-based cognitive therapy in outpatient Settings: An overview and personal experiences  
   12:10 -12:30 Talk 23 A. Bolewska and E. Lojek  
      The effectiveness of Computer assisted neuropsychological rehabilitation the methods of its assessment  
   12:30 - 12:45 Discussion Plenum  

   12:45 - 13:45
LUNCH
 

 
Session 10
Social Factors and Interventions
Chair: Steffen-Malik Hoegh
 
   13:45 -14:30 Datablitz 16 J.-L- Truelle, K. von Wild and M. Montreuil  
      Social reintegration after Traumatic Brain Injury: the French experience  
    Datablitz 17 N. Behn, L. Thoger and E. Power  
      Training paid caregivers of people with acquired Brain Injury (ABI): A Qualitative Study  
    Datablitz 18 C. Haslam, I.Gleibs and A. Haslam  
      Clubs in Care: Can these social interventions cure?  
    Datablitz 19 G. Yeates, N. Creamer, M. Mahadevan, J. Whitehouse-Hart, F. Gracey, A. Bateman, L. Phillips and B. Dunn  
      Social Cognition, So What? (2) Predictors of lntimacy and Adjustment in Couples Relationships following Acquired Brain lnjury  
    Datablitz 20 N. Lincoln, F. Yuill and J. Holmes  
      Evidence of a Support Group for People with Multiple Sclerosis  

 
Session 11
Emotional Factors
Chair: Emilia Lojek
 
   14:30 - 14:50 Talk 24 T. Ownsworth and M. Ono
 
      Defensiveness and symptoms reporting in the medico-legal context: Empirical findings and a case study  
   14:50 -15:10 Talk 25 J. F. Malec, A. W. Brown, A. M. Moessner, T. Stump and P. Monahan  
      A Preliminary Model for Post-TBI Depression  
   15:10 -15:30 Talk 26 N.King and S. Kirwilliam  
      Factors associated with long-term post concussion Symptoms (PCS) following mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI)  
   15:30 - 15:45 Discussion Plenum  
         
   15:45 - 16:15
AFTERNOON TEA AND POSTER SESSION
 

 
Session 12
Innovative Measures
Chair: Tamara Ownsworth
 
   16:15 - 16:35 Talk 27 A. Caracuel, A. Bateman and T. Teasdale
 
      Validity of the EBIQ subscales  
   16:35 -16:55 Talk 28 A.-L. R. Adlam, M. Adams, R. Rous, G. Yates, A. Bateman and F. Gracey  
      The Bangor Gambling Task: A useful clinical tool in the assessment of emotion-based decision-making in survivors of traumatic brain injury?  
   16:55 - 17:15 Talk 29 S. Baylan and J. Evans  
      Assessment of Prospective Remembering in a Multi-Element Goal Management Task: a Study of the Convergent Validity of the Modified Hotel Test  
   17:15 - 17:30 Discussion Plenum  
         
 
Session 13
Rehabilitation for the Real World (Part II)
Chair: Thomas Bodner
 
   17:30 -18:15 Datablitz 21 T. Powell and N. Krishnan  
      A single case design involving the use of an electronic assistive device to improve cooking safety in a man with severe memory problems  
    Datablitz 22 B. Johansson, A. Godbolt, C. Sandström and L. Eriksson  
      Development of a patient focused organization for outpatient rehabilitation for persons with ABI: minimizing  
    Datablitz 23 J. Ho, S. Lah, A. Epps, L. Parry and M. Poole  
      A cognitive remediation Programme for everyday memory deficits in children with acquired brain injury  
    Datablitz 24 C. Robinson and J. Leathem  
      A comparison outcomes measures for suitability in brain injury rehabilitation  
    Datablitz 25 D. Poeppl, W. Fries, R. Deck, C. Pott, S. Fischer, G. Risse and P. Reuther  
      Participate! Evaluation of participation specific effects in German outpatient neurorehabilitation  

   18:15 - 18:30
Conference Closing: Barbara A. Wilson
 

   18:30 - 19:30
AGM Meeting Update of the WFNR Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Special lnterest Group
 

  No.
POSTERS DAY 1
 
 
Poster 1
S. Anderson, G. Dampney and S. Griffith
An Inpatient Survey Of Poststroke Sleep Problems
 
 
Poster 2
M. Turner and D. Andrewes
The Assessment Of Interpersonal Skills In Stroke Patients
 
 
Poster 3
J. Pena, E. Bengoetxea ,N. Ojeda, R. Segarra, J. Garcia, J. I.Eguiluz and J. Ezcurra
Verbal Fluency improves significantly after cognitive remediation in First Episode Psychosis
 
 
Poster 4
E. Bennett, M. English, A. Starza-Smith and M. Rennoldson
Predicting parenting Stress in caregivers of a child with a brain tumour
 
 
Poster 5
T. Bhugobaun and G. Florschutz
Managing an "unmanageable" patient following two TBls
 
 
Poster 6
P. Covre, C. Ford, O. F. A. Bueno, A. Bateman
The use of feedback for time perception deficit compensation: a single-subject experimental design
 
 
Poster 7
N. Alderman, C. Knight, I.Stewart and A. Boothby
Measuring Behavioural Outcome in Neurodisability: Use of the OAS-MNR as an lndicator of Service Efficacy
 
 
Poster 8
W. Kühne and P. Frommelt
Personal Navigation and Narrative Approach -Benefits and Limitations of their lncorporation into Brain lnjury Rehabilitation
 
 
Poster 9
K. McCoy, C. Campbell and M. Kelly
Social Cognition Rehabilitation in TBI & PTSD: Emotion Perception and Expression lnterventions
 
 
Poster 10
C. Campbell, M. Kelly and K. McCoy
Social Cognition Rehabilitation in TBI & PTSD: ldentity & Readjustment lnterventions
 
 
Poster 11
M. Kelly, K. McCoy and C. Campbell
Social Cognition Rehabilitation in TBI & PTSD: Social Problem Solving lnterventions
 
 
Poster 12
G. Riley, G. Bellamy and A. Brennan
Family expectations about recovery after acquired brain injury
 
 
Poster 13
G. Scheibner and J. Leathem
Memory control beliefs, strategy use, and cognitive failures in midlife: The moderating
effects of selection, optimisation, and compensation
 
 
Poster 14
E. Skidmore, M. Holm, E. Whyte, D. Dawson and J. Becker
Strategy Training to lmprove Outcomes in Stroke Rehabilitation: A Case Study
 
 
Poster 15
K. Wingeier, S. Bigi, M. EI-Koussy, T. Heinks-Maldonado, E. Boltshauser and M. Steinlin
Neuropsychological long-term sequelae after hemorrhagic isolated cerebellar stroke during development
 
 
Poster 16
G. Yeates, M. Luckie, Z. DeBeer and P. Khela
Elucidating the psychosocial context of 'post-concussion Syndrome' (PCS): A case study from family therapy
 
 
Poster 17
P. Kulistak and E. Bolcekova
Complex rehabilitation care at the Military Rehabilitation Centre Slapy nad Vltavou (Prague-West)
 
 
Poster 18
E. Bennett and E. Meldrum
Psychological intervention with a child experiencing Reflex Anoxic Seizures: A Case Report
 
 
Poster 19
L. Birkett-Swan and M. Montenegro
A metacognitive approach for the treatment of anxiety and excessive ruminations following acquired brain injury
 
 
Poster 20
N. Goudie, D. Kersel, S. Petrie
The cornerstone of neurorehabilitation: two cases of interdisciplinary assessment with contrasting outcomes
 
 
Poster 21
F. Gracey, R. Brindley and A. Bateman
Mnemonic enhancement of cognitive behavioural therapy: a single case study and conceptual considerations for therapy adaptation after brain injury
 
 
Poster 22
V. Grigoryeva, V. Nesterova, E. Gusanova and Y. Sagildina
Self-appraisal of executive dysfunction in post-stroke patients
 
 
Poster 23
B. Hagger and G. Riley
To tell or not to tell: that is our question: an exploration of self-disclosure after brain injury
 
 
Poster 24
S. Hynes, T. Manly and J. Fish
Games-Evaluation Task (GET): the development of a computer-based multi-tasking
game
 
 
Poster 25
C. Jacobsson, I. Sjöberg and M. Kihlgren
Clinics for children with mild-moderate ABI at a centre for rehabilitation
 
 
Poster 26
M. Khrakovskaya
Acalculia rehabilitation treatment
 
 
Poster 27
S. Pullan and C. Knight
The Experience Of Care Staff Delivering Reminiscence Sessions To People With Dementia
 
 
Poster 28
L. Hayward and C. Knight
Inappropriate Sexual Behaviour and Dementia; an Exploration of Staff Experiences
 
 
Poster 29
I. Kulikova, N. Varako and V. Daminov
Methods Of Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Of Patients With Amnestic Syndrome
 
 
Poster 30
K. Polanowska
Transcranial direct current Stimulation: a new strategy to improve effects of neurorehabilitative treatments
 
 
Poster 31
O.Garcia Sanchez and C. Gonzalez Agudo
Cognitive measures versus social behaviour measures to demonstrate the efficiency of Programmes of neuropsychology rehabilitation in chronic patients
 
 
Poster 32
E. Skidmore, M. Holm, E. Whyte and J. Becker
Influences of Cognitive Impairment on Motor Recovery
 
 
Poster 33
W. Sturm and J. Hauke
A single Case Study on The Time Course and Long Term Efficacy of Alertness Training
 
 
Poster 34
M. Vink, E. Scherder, M. Holleman, M. Luijpen, A. Beerlage and R. Horst
Gender differences in self-image after Intensive Neurorehabilitation
 
 
Poster 35
C. Murray and G. Yeates
Meta-cognition and brain injury: In the head or the conversation?