35.606, FYI: Online talk 2/29, Blaise Morrison: Psychosocial Aspects of Living with Aphasia

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Subject: 35.606, FYI: Online talk 2/29, Blaise Morrison: Psychosocial Aspects of Living with Aphasia

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Date: 20-Feb-2024
From: Dirk Den Ouden [denouden at sc.edu]
Subject: Online talk 2/29, Blaise Morrison: Psychosocial Aspects of Living with Aphasia


Thursday, February 29th, 12pm EST (5pm UTC)
Presentation in Zoom, accessible via the C-STAR website:
http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

Psychosocial Aspects of LIVING with Aphasia: Promoting Quality of Life
Beyond Language

Blaise Morrison, PhD, HSP-P, CRC, LPC
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

The onset of aphasia often creates significant disruptions in the
quality of life (QOL) of individuals and their families. Individuals
with aphasia, as well as their carepartners/caregivers, experience
significantly higher rates of co-occurring psychological disabilities,
relational problems, and social isolation compared to the general
non-disabled and non-caregiving populations. While communication and
language recovery contribute substantially to overall QOL,
interventions do not often account for psychological and social
factors that may intimately affect QOL despite aphasia recovery. This
is one primary explanation why speech language pathologists and
rehabilitation clinicians often interact with patients that have
experienced significant progress in their aphasia yet experience
continued difficulties with psychological health, adjustment to
disability, and overall QOL. Psychosocial factors are associated with
aspects of language recovery, impact engagement and retention in
treatment, and account for significant variability in healthcare
outcomes. Psychosocial factors often impact QOL after disability to a
greater extent than do biomedical factors, such as the type and
severity of the injury/illness. Therefore, it has become critical for
health professionals working with the aphasia community to understand
the role of psychosocial factors in rehabilitation and to promote QOL
beyond language. This presentation provides an overview of
psychosocial factors that impact aphasia recovery and QOL, with an
emphasis on caregivers/carepartners and the family system. An overview
of evidence-based clinical strategies to support psychosocial health
and QOL in persons with aphasia and their families will be provided,
and recommendations for future research and practice will be explored.
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The online lecture can be followed online from your computer, tablet
or smartphone, in Zoom. The zoom link is accessible via the C-STAR
website: http://cstar.sc.edu/lecture-series/

The live watch party for this lecture will be in Discovery I room #140
(915 Greene Street, Columbia, SC)

For more information, or to be added to the C-STAR mailing list,
contact Dirk den Ouden: denouden at sc.edu

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics
                     Clinical Linguistics
                     Neurolinguistics




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