2024.10.24 – INTIMASY-TBI: Recommendations for Promoting Sexual Health and Wellness for Individuals with TBI (Live Webinar)

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This webinar will focus on recently published evidence-based recommendations for clinicians to support sexual health and wellness for individuals with TBI. These recommendations were  developed by an expert panel of North American clinicians and researchers. Recommendations cover the areas of: interprofessional team training; early education; creating individualized interventions; education, assessment, and management of causes of sexual dysfunction; and provision of written materials and relationship coaching to individuals with TBI and their partners.

Learning Objectives

• List two gaps in current practice of addressing intimacy and sexuality for individuals with TBI.
• Discuss two INTIMASY recommendations for the interprofessional team to address intimacy and sexuality.  
• Describe two INTIMASY recommendations for specific suggestions that clinicians can provide to individuals with TBI and their partners to improve sexual functioning. 

Includes 1 ACBIS CEU.

Speaker Bio:

Angelle Sander, Ph.D., FACRM, is a clinical neuropsychologist who is a Senior Scientist and Director of the Brain Injury Research Center (BIRC) at TIRR Memorial Hermann and Professor in the H. Ben Taub Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Baylor College of Medicine. She is a nationally recognized expert in the field of rehabilitation and has received multiple national research awards, including a NIDILRR Mary E. Switzer Rehabilitation Research Fellowship, the American Congress of Rehabilitation Medicine’s Deborah L. Wilkerson Early Career Award in Rehabilitation Research, and the Brain Injury Association of America’s William Fields Caveness Award. Dr. Sander has extensive experience in carrying out research grants and disseminating information to professional and consumer audiences. She has served as Principal Investigator (PI) or Co-PI for two TBI Model System Collaborative Grants, PI for two consecutive Rehabilitation Research and Training Centers on Community Integration/Participation in Persons with TBI, and Project Director or Co-Director for four TBI Model System grants. She has published over 150 peer reviewed articles, 20 book chapters, and co-edited 2 books. She has co-authored numerous TBIMS Consumer Fact Sheets and several educational manuals and brochures for people with TBI and their caregivers or for rehabilitation professionals, including on the topic of intimacy and sexuality.

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