Working with Brain Injury - what every social worker needs to know | BASW England Social Work in Health Forum

to 1:30pm
About this event

In this webinar, the Brain Injury Social Work Group (BISWG) will present work carried out by the Heads Together research team, which includes people with lived experience, sharing findings and key messages into social work career-long education.

The term ‘acquired brain injury’ (ABI) refers to any injury to the brain that occurs after birth and can have a lifelong impact on mental health, employment, relationships and capacity. It also affects carers and communities with the effects being both individual to the person as well as lifelong. No two people are the same.

Brain Injuries can result from a physical blow (for example, an accident, an assault or sport injury), or a medical event (such as a stroke or a brain haemorrhage). (for more information see www.ukabif.org.uk)

Dr Czarina Kirk is a Consultant Neuropsychiatrist at the Forensic Brain Injury Service at Guild Lodge, Lancashire and South Cumbria NHS Trust, in Preston. This is a service that provides secure brain injury rehabilitation within a Forensic Mental Health framework. Czarina is also Vice Chair of the Neuropsychiatry Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatrists

Caroline Bald is a registered social worker with twenty years practice experience in criminal justice social work in both adult and children's services in case manager and leadership roles. Caroline has been an academic since 2016, joining the University of Essex in February 2020 and teaches across BA & MA Social Work programmes encompassing ethics, human rights and critical issues in contemporary practice. Caroline sits on the Essex Human Rights Centre advisory board and her research focuses on the intersection between heath, social care and justice. She was a research fellow on a two-year NIHR grant funded project to develop a national brain injury social work education platform, she is the chair of the Brain Injury Social Work Group and Co-Chair of the BASW England Criminal Justice Thematic Group