Walking with Dobermanns (part 1)
Author: Sam Simpson, Emma Gale & Ashleigh Denman
Magazine issue: Autumn 09
Page numbers: 12-15
Date: 31 August 2009
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This is the first of two articles inspired by the work of the late Mark Ylvisaker. While the authors describe how he inspired them to develop a practical, holistic, integrative approach to brain injury rehabilitation, they stress the applicability of these ideas to therapists working in many fields with clients of all ages. Ylvisaker reverses the traditional hierarchy of therapy, which moves from impairment through activity to a later focus on participation. His range of interventions focuses on goal setting, group and individual project work, use of metaphor and identity mapping. In this article, Sam Simpson explains how she put the ideas about identity reconstruction into practice with a recent client, PJ. The second article in the Winter 09 issue will cover project work.
