Traumatic Brain Injury Training – Tools for Behavioral Health Professionals

When: April 14, 2016
Time: 8:00 am – 12:30 pm
Where: Chesapeake College
1000 College Circle, HEC Room 110
Wye Mills MD 21679
Open to: All Eastern Shore residents

In response to growing interest in the topic of traumatic brain injury and the impact the presence of a history of brain injury can have on access to and the delivery of behavioral health services, Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems is offering a half day training on TBI.

Individuals in need of mental health and substance related disorders treatment services may be living with neurobehavioral difficulties as a result of having sustained a TBI or multiple TBIs over the course of their lives. Consequently they can face challenges in both accessing and successfully utilizing behavioral health services.

Through a facilitated webinar and interactive exercises, this training will provide an overview of TBI, including the ramifications of unrecognized and undiagnosed brain injury, and its impact on behavioral health. Attendees will be introduced to a brief TBI screening tool that can be used to elicit an individual’s possible history of TBI. Accommodations and strategies to engage and support individuals living with TBI to maximize mental health and substance abuse treatment outcomes will be shared.

This letter is an invitation to attend this half-day training session, presented by Anastasia Edmonston, TBI and Person Centered Planner of the Maryland Behavioral Health Administration.

• Course Objectives – Participants will be able to:
  • Identify common neurobehavioral barriers common to those living with a history of traumatic brain injury
  • Be able to complete a simple TBI Screening tool
  • Name at least three accommodations that can be used to support individuals living with brain injury participate in behavioral health services.

This training is co-sponsored by the Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems, Inc., The Maryland Behavioral Health Administration and the University of Maryland Training Center-CEUs for Social Workers, LCPC, and Psychologists will be offered as well as Certificates of Attendance.

If you have any questions, please contact Erica Horney, at Mid-Shore Mental Health Systems, ehorney@msmhs.org/410-770-4801, ext. 302.

As an accredited academic institution, the University of Maryland School of Medicine Training Center is an approved sponsor of the Maryland Board of Social Work Examiners for 4 Continuing Education credits (Category 1) for licensed social workers in Maryland; as a sponsor of 4 Continuing Education (CE) acceptable to the Maryland Board of Examiners of Psychologists; and 4 Continuing Education Units (Category A) by the Board of Professional Counselors and Therapists, upon completion of this training and a completed evaluation. The Training Center maintains responsibility for this program. A Certificate of Attendance will be made available for all other disciplines.