Description

In this episode I speak with Dr Grahame Simpson who has 30 years of experience as a practitioner and clinical researcher in the field of traumatic brain injury. He is recognised internationally for his work in conducting epidemiological, clinical and psychometric, intervention and translation-based research in suicide prevention, positive sexual adjustment, the community-based management of challenging behaviours and family resilience in the field of traumatic brain injury.

Links to resources mentioned in this week’s episode:

• Family Violence Multi-Agency Risk Assessment and Management Framework - https://www.vic.gov.au/sites/default/files/2019-02/MARAM-policy-framework-24-09-2018.pdf
• Brain Injury Australia’s report Australia’s first research into family violence and brain injury - https://www.braininjuryaustralia.org.au/download-bias-report-on-australias-first-research-into-family-violence-and-brain-injury/
• Beck Hopelessness Scale - https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/products/view/42
• Beck Scale for Suicide Ideation - https://www.pearsonclinical.com.au/products/view/44
• Contemporary Perspectives on Social Work in Acquired Brain Injury (Introduction by Grahame Simpson & Francis Yuen) - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/306068907_Contemporary_Perspectives_on_Social_Work_in_Acquired_Brain_Injury_An_Introduction
• US military personnel Window to Hope program - https://msrc.fsu.edu/funded-research/window-hope
• Strength2Strength program at Royal Rehab - https://royalrehab.com.au/event/strength2strength-program-for-brain-injury-3/
• No to Violence NSW - https://ntv.org.au/
• International Network for Social Workers in Acquired Brain Injury - https://www.inswabi.org/
• The UK Brain Injury Social Work Group - https://www.biswg.co.uk/
  

This episode's transcript can be viewed here:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Zj4DEb-LQKGC5dN-F0mqrZihyKuStxIopertaH1ndoY/edit?usp=sharing

Thanks to Kevin Macleod of incompetech.com for our theme music.