Contextualised rehabilitation
We believe that rehabilitation is most effective, when carried out in a day-to-day, domestic setting, offering environmental cues that encourage appropriate behaviour and help to develop practical ability. Whether our clients live at a residential centre or in the wider community, providing these cues is a key part of their rehabilitation.
Developing skills and functions
We work with clients to develop their:
- motor control
- communication
- mobility
- central functions
- executive functions
Therapy models
Our approach is client-centred, drawing on cognitive behavioural, psychodynamic and family therapy models of interventions. We will encourage clients to:
- monitor their thoughts and behaviours to help them identify and manage challenging situations
- understand and accept their emotions
- recognise and manage frustrations that may be caused by brain injury
- develop cognitive strategies to help them with memory issues
Social rehabilitation
Through social rehabilitation, individuals lead as normal a life as possible, enabling their transition from a care environment towards increased community inclusion. Social rehabilitation includes:
- carrying out domestic responsibilities and tasks of daily living
- money management and budgeting
- developing organisational skills
- joining educational and vocational courses
- leisure activities
- developing relationships with family and friends
- opportunities to socialise and get involved in the local community
We also promote vocational rehabilitation by giving individuals the skills to function within a work environment. Click here for an example of how we integrate social rehabilitation into our client care programmes.
Medication
As part of the rehabilitation and treatment process, we will administer medication to clients, where necessary. Whenever possible, we will seek to gain co-operation with medication and to involve clients in decision-making and in the monitoring of side effects. Our medication service includes updating prescriptions and blood monitoring.
Risk management
We take risk management very seriously and have established protocols that allow us to deliver effective, specialist rehabilitation services in a measurable way. If a crisis arises and there is a need for hospital admission, we have access to the acute wards at Lewisham Hospital.