September 2011

With the recent flurry of media attention on concussions and sports, the awareness of brain injury is growing steadily. We are excited to share with you some short videos put together by the Brainstreams.ca team, along with a special Ask the Expert series, to help brain injury survivors and their friends and family better understand how to move forward.

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The Human Brain

Vancouver Film School Digital Design students teamed up with the Brainstreams.ca team in the Spring to put together this one-minute videooutlining the key facts and risks associated with brain injury in Canada.

We are pleased to share the video it with you (click to play):

Special thanks to VFS Digital Design students Matthew Dale, Erman Dumlu, Ryan Hoback, Gary Sylvester and Leon Wong who created this video, and the entire team who supported this project along the way!

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Ask the Expert

Brainstreams 'Ask the Expert" section features a new expert each month, focusing on a particular topic. Coming up in October:

Adjusting to the "New you", Learning to live well with brain injury

Ellen Connell is a Registered Clinical Counselor in private practice.  She has been providing individual, group and family counseling services to individuals affected by brain injury (and other catastrophic injuries) for over 25 years. Ellen received her B.A. in psychology and her M.A. in Counseling Psychology from U.B.C. Her thesis examined how direct and indirect survivors made sense of the experience of brain injury and living with brain injury She is the co–developer of a curriculum based mutual aid model for facilitating psychological growth and emotional wellness following a catastrophic injury.

Send your questions to info@brainstreams.ca >>

Past topics include: 

Difficulty with language (aphasia)
Experiencing Loss
Survivor's Insight; Accepting the "New Self"
Reintegrating Students with Brain Injury Back to School
Return to activity following concussion
Integration back into society after a TBI, dating and relationships