Overview
Background
Sarah is an occupational therapist with over 20 years clinical experience delivering specialised brain injury and complex neurological intervention across the continuum of care in Australia and the UK. Sarah is passionate about conducting research which enables improved rehabilitation outcomes and quality of life for people with brain injury. Her PhD, completed in 2018, investigated client-centred goal setting in the rehabilitation of community dwelling clients with acquired brain injury. The PhD provides insight into how clinicians may implement the client-centred goal setting process in practice to ensure that the meaningful and personally relevant goals of people with brain injury can be formulated, despite known barriers such as memory and self-awareness impairment.
Sarah is a Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Brain Injury Rehabilitation, Surgical Treatment and Rehabilitation Service (STARS) Education and Research Alliance, the University of Queensland. She also works in her private practice, to provide specialised brain injury rehabilitation services in Queensland, Australia.
Availability
- Dr Sarah Prescott is:
- Available for supervision
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor (Honours), The University of Queensland
- Doctor of Philosophy, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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Brain Injury
Sarah is dedicated to brain injury rehabilitation research which results in implementable service change and is driven by the unmet needs of consumers. Programs of research include codesigning family involvement in brain injury rehabilitation with consumers to enhance service delivery. Oher interests include occupation-based research, community-based rehabilitation and the use of technology in rehabilitation.
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Consumer codesign
Sarah is passionate about consumer codesign research. Interest in this area has been generated from her clinical work which has highlighted the need for engagement of consumers in all research to design interventions that incorporate the user’s perspective to enable better outcomes in rehabilitation.
Research impacts
Sarah’s research enables a greater understanding of the way people with brain injury may be included in client-centred goal setting, a fundamental process which underpins all rehabilitation intervention but is challenging in practice due to the complex presentation of people with brain injury. Several publications from her PhD have described this process and provide clinicians with practical strategies to better engage people with brain injury in goal setting.
Works
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2015
Conference Publication
A systematic scoping review of goal planning approaches and principles used in rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jenny and Doig, Emmah (2015). A systematic scoping review of goal planning approaches and principles used in rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury. 5th INS/ASSBI Pacific Rim conference, Sydney, Australia, 1-4 July 2015.
2015
Conference Publication
Exploring factors related to participation in client-centred goal planning
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jenny and Doig, Emmah (2015). Exploring factors related to participation in client-centred goal planning. 12th NR-SIG-WFNR Conference, Daydream Island, QLD, Australia, 6-7 July 2015.
2014
Journal Article
Development of self-awareness after severe traumatic brain injury through participation in occupation-based rehabilitation: mixed-methods analysis of a case series
Doig, Emmah, Kuipers, Pim, Prescott, Sarah, Cornwell, Petrea and Fleming, Jennifer (2014). Development of self-awareness after severe traumatic brain injury through participation in occupation-based rehabilitation: mixed-methods analysis of a case series. American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 68 (5), 578-588. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2014.010785
Supervision
Availability
- Dr Sarah Prescott is:
- Available for supervision
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