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description: Competence 1: Generic professional skills: This critical reflection will discuss the journey of how my professional practice has developed over the course of my two-year placement as a Trainee Health Psychologist, working in Nurture Health and in CO-LAB Innovation Hub, Kidderminster Hospital (Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust). Competence 2: Behaviour change intervention: This case study is a 3000-word report (plus a 500-word reflective commentary and observer’s report) of a psychological intervention that has been implemented through face-to-face work with an individual client, detailing all elements of the process: assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation. Competence 3a: Systematic review: Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant public health concern, with figures suggesting that 35,000 children in the UK are admitted to hospital each year because of a head injury, with 2,000 of these being considered serious TBI or resulting in death (Trefan et al., 2016). For those who survive, paediatric TBI causes a variety of issues for patients, including mild to severe impairments in physical, psychological, educational and social functioning and development, which can range from short-term issues that can be resolved with rehabilitation to more debilitating and long-term challenges. The impact of TBI can be far-reaching and has significant implications for parents of these children, including economic challenges and difficulty adjusting, which lead to significant parental stress and burden of care. When a paediatric TBI occurs, the lives of all family members are changed and it is the parents who must carry this load, despite struggling with their own personal resources (Youngblut et al., 2000). The objectives of the present systematic review are: 1) to examine the lived experience of paediatric TBI on parental stress and 2) to explore what the burden of care is for parents. To date, there is no systematic review investigating the impact…
abstract: Competence 1: Generic professional skills: This critical reflection will discuss the journey of how my professional practice has developed over the course of my two-year placement as a Trainee Health Psychologist, working in Nurture Health and in CO-LAB Innovation Hub, Kidderminster Hospital (Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust). Competence 2: Behaviour change intervention: This case study is a 3000-word report (plus a 500-word reflective commentary and observer’s report) of a psychological intervention that has been implemented through face-to-face work with an individual client, detailing all elements of the process: assessment, formulation, intervention and evaluation. Competence 3a: Systematic review: Paediatric Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a significant public health concern, with figures suggesting that 35,000 children in the UK are admitted to hospital each year because of a head injury, with 2,000 of these being considered serious TBI or resulting in death (Trefan et al., 2016). For those who survive, paediatric TBI causes a variety of issues for patients, including mild to severe impairments in physical, psychological, educational and social functioning and development, which can range from short-term issues that can be resolved with rehabilitation to more debilitating and long-term challenges. The impact of TBI can be far-reaching and has significant implications for parents of these children, including economic challenges and difficulty adjusting, which lead to significant parental stress and burden of care. When a paediatric TBI occurs, the lives of all family members are changed and it is the parents who must carry this load, despite struggling with their own personal resources (Youngblut et al., 2000). The objectives of the present systematic review are: 1) to examine the lived experience of paediatric TBI on parental stress and 2) to explore what the burden of care is for parents. To date, there is no systematic review investigating the impact…
author: Lynch, Lorraine
keywords: 610 Medicine & health
date published: 2024-10
date modified: 2026-07-24T02:54:47Z
provider: London Metropolitan University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
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source organization: London Metropolitan University