Why TBI Support Groups Arent Enough

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Why TBI Support Groups Arent Enough

• Collaborating To Promote
• Identity, Entitlement Community
• Presentation By
• Judith Panko Reis, MA, MS
• Director, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago,
  Women with Disabilities Center

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TWO MODELS OF TBI - An Update
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TBI Support Groups Foster

• Social contact with other TBI
• individuals
• Injury Specific Resources
• Emotional Well Being
• Problem Solving Support
• A New Normal Identity

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A Collaborative Setting

• Recognizes TBI is Complex
• Integrates Medical and Disability Rights Model
• Validates Sense of Community Belonging and
  Ownership
• Enhances Disability Pride and Entitlement
• Promotes Leadership PWD Set Agenda - Clinicians
  and Administrators Help Facilitate Agenda)
• Fosters Community Advocacy w/other PWD

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Integrates Medical and Disability Rights Model
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Validates Sense of Community Belonging and
Ownership
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Enhances Disability Pride and Entitlement
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Promotes Leadership (PWD Set Agenda Clinicians
Administrators Help Facilitate Agenda)
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Fosters Community Advocacy w/other PWD
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TBI RESOURCES

• The Journal of Clinical Ethics, Volume 15,
  Number 4 / 2004
• Mapping the Moral Landscape Families and
  Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury, The
  Hypothetical Case of Jeff.  2003.  Brain Injury
  Source, Vol. 6 (4), 8-39
• Women Living with Traumatic Brain Injury
  Social Isolation, Emotional functioning and
  Implications for Psychotheraphy
• In Women with visible and Invisible
  Disabilities Multiple Intersections, Multiple
  Issues, Multiple Therapies. Banks, Kaschak eds,
  The Haworth Press, 2003.
• The Resourceful Woman educational Publication
  published by and for Women with Disabilities and
  their health providers Rehabilitation Institute
  of Chicago, Women with Disabilities Center. To
  subscribe email WWDC_at_ric.org