Empower Your OT Skills: Cognition and Psychosocial Disability Workshop
Cognition and psychosocial disability- assessment and strategies to optimise functional capacity in daily life
The workshop will:
Build understanding of the cognitive impacts of psychosocial disability, often an under-recognised factor in daily functioning that has significant implications for support needs.
Describes assessment tools and processes, and translate results to meaningful capacity building programs.
Review therapeutic strategies to support cognitive functioning, and underpinning evidence for these.
Workshop duration: 1.5 Hours
Cost: $85.00
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WHAT OTHERS ARE SAYING
This was a great workshop, engaging, easy to understand, and really helped to build my understanding of cognition and psycho-social disability.
About the Presenters:
Muriel Cummins is an Occupational Therapist and holds a Master of Public Health. She graduated in Dublin 2001 and has worked in mental health and disability in Australia since 2005. Muriel is a strong advocate for the development of the role of OT within the NDIS space, and is a current member of the OTA NDIS Taskforce; OTA MH National Reference group; and the ICF Australia Interest Group, a multidisciplinary and academic group exploring the use of the ICF in the NDIS context. She currently works in private practice; and provides training and supervision to mental health OT’s. She is co-founder of allied health advocacy group ‘Allied’. Muriel’s previous roles span the clinical, not-for-profit, peak body and private practice sectors.
