Training Description
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is often referred to as a silent epidemic. In recent years, we have heard increasing amounts of research about head injury, mTBI (concussions), and how head injuries may be cumulative, and can lead to long term problems emotionally, cognitively, and physically. In many cases, TBI can impact individuals throughout the life span.
TBI can result in cognitive, emotional, behavioral and physical problems; and TBI can often mimic a variety of disorders including ADD/ADHD, Anxiety, Depression, Oppositional Defiant Disorder and PTSD. This 1.5 hour workshop will provide an overview of TBI, causes of TBI, symptoms of TBI and the use of neurofeedback to treat TBI. Case examples will be used throughout the workshop.
Target Audience Description: Clinicians working with patients who have experienced head injury and administrators in clinical settings.
Trainer Biography
Robert E. Longo, MRC, LPC, NCC, BCN Fellow, is a part-time neurofeedback clinician with Cotton Grove Family Physicians in Lexington, NC where he provides Neurofeedback services; and is a part-time contract clinician at Timber Ridge Treatment Center in Gold Hill, NC where he works with sexually abusive youth. He was previously a part-time neurofeedback clinician with Integrative Therapies in Greensboro, NC. Rob has worked with Dr. Richard Soutar, New Mind Maps and New Mind Technology, in Roswell, GA, since 2008, and together with Dr. Soutar co-hosts weekly webinars. Rob is currently on the Board of Directors for the International Society of Neurofeedback Research (ISNR); and was previously Vice President of the Southeastern Biofeedback and Clinical Neuroscience Association (formerly the North Carolina Biofeedback Society). He was previously Director of Clinical Training/Stress Reduction Clinic & Biofeedback Lab, and Clinical Director (2005-2008); Old Vineyard Behavioral Health Services, a psychiatric hospital, in Winston-Salem, NC, and Corporate Director of Special Programming and Clinical Training for New Hope Treatment Centers, Charleston, South Carolina. He is co-author of Doing Neurofeedback.: An Introduction (2011); and has authored several chapters and articles on the topic.
Learning Objectives
This training is designed to help you:
- Participants will be able to recite the incidence and prevalence of TBI
- Participants will be able to identify/list multiple causes of TBI
- Participants will be able to identify/list symptoms related to TBI
- Participants will be able to describe neurofeedback treatment options for treating TBI