The Rehabilitation of Love in Neuro-Rehabilitation
What you'll learn
- The impact of neurological conditions on love and romantic relationships
- Neuroscientific findings pertaining to the brain in love
- Emotionally-Focused Couples Therapy in Neuro-rehabilitation
- Couples work with Aphasia
- Sexuality & neurological conditions; psychosexual work
Requirements
- None
Description
Love, connection and emotional relationships between couples is commonly adversely affected following brain injury (traumatic brain injury, stroke and other forms of ABI). Couples may either face separation or ongoing cohabitation in an environment of stress, conflict and heart-break.
While this need may be prioritised by survivors and/or their partners, this is not a common focus of brain injury services and many clinicians, researchers and students feel ill-equipped to support couples relationships after brain injury. Neuro-rehabilitation typically focuses on independence of the survivor, not inter-dependence, emotional connection between people or the rehabilitation of love. On the other hand, important work to support hear-break and safe separation can leave clinicians uncertain as to how to proceed.
This course will use dydactic learning (theories, overview of relevant literature and key concepts) and case studies to offer useful concepts and tools to understand and support relationship distress following brain injury. Ideas from neuroscience, brain injury rehabilitation and couples therapy are summarised and introduced in an accessible manner.
Please note elements of this course are already included within the wider course: Family, Couples & Relationship Work in Neuro-rehabilitation. This course has 3 additional case studies to explore the use of the EFT couples model in neuro-rehabilitation in more detail.
Who this course is for:
- Neuro-rehabilitation clinicians and students
Course content
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Instructor
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- 114 Students
- 6 Courses
Dr Giles Yeates (DClinPsych; MSc (Clin Neuro); BSc (Hons); AFBPS; C Psychol) is a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist dedicated to pioneering interventions and initiatives within community settings that support the mental health, relationships and communication with people with neurological conditions and their significant others.
Dr Yeates has over 20 years’ experience in community neuro-rehabilitation, vocational rehabilitation and neuropsychotherapy, and his worked in internationally-renowned and pioneering NHS services such as the Community Head Injury Service, Aylesbury and the Oliver Zangwill Centre, Cambridgeshire. Within these services, Dr Yeates has developed the integration of family work within community neuro-rehabilitation service models, and pioneered the adaptation and use of a couples therapy approach (Emotionally Focused Couples Therapy, EFT) in the rehabilitation of love and relationship closeness for people with neurological conditions. Finally, Dr Yeates has continued established traditions within neuropsychological rehabilitation on the use of psychotherapy groups and individual psychodynamic interventions.
Dr Yeates has a background in Chinese martial arts (tai chi and kung fu), and an additional interest is the use of these practices to simultaneously respond to concurrent physical and psychological needs of survivors. This work has been developed in NHS, private and academic settings.
More recently Dr Yeates has moved away from health service-based models of service support to work as a clinical neuropsychologist within long-term community resources within the third/voluntary sectors, partnering with charities to deliver web-based resources to survivors and their significant others on a wider scale. This has been an exciting transition to fully realise the remit of a social model of neuro-disability within his clinical practice.
These pioneering projects have developed symbiotically with an active research and dissemination programme. Previously contributing to clinical psychology training in neuro-rehabilitation and research as an honorary tutor at Oxford University, Dr Yeates is now an active academic at the Centre of Movement, Occupational and Rehabilitation Sciences (MOReS), Oxford Brookes University. Dr Yeates is editor of both a journal (Neuro-Disability & Psychotherapy) and book series (Brain Injury), both of which support clinicians to share their innovations in practice.
Dr Yeates was invited to be Chair of the Thames Valley United Kingdom Acquired Brain Injury Forum (UKABIF) in 2019, where he and his colleagues brings all of these strands (NHS, private, third/voluntary and academic activity) for the benefit of people with neurological conditions in the Thames Valley area of the UK.