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Item Counseling individuals and their caregivers that have suffered a stroke : a clinicians guide(2017-05) Villanueva, Gabriela; Byrd, Courtney T.This report was developed to help guide clinicians in using safe and effective counseling strategies when working with individuals that have suffered a stroke. Many individuals that have suffered a stroke have life altering deficits that impact not only themselves, but their family members as well. It is important that speech and language pathologists (SLP’s) understand the impact that these family members face as well as the psychological disorders that an individual may face after having suffered a stroke. There are many psychological theories that SLP’s can incorporate into their practice when working with this population as well as effective tools to help better facilitate the recovery process. The therapeutic process can have a greater impact when there is a positive rapport between the clinician and the individual, therefore, clinicians should encompass these therapeutic tools and strategies to help facilitate a more positive recovery for individuals and their family members.Item Living well with aphasia : spousal involvement as an integral component in stroke recovery(2011-05) McCabe, Kathryn Rose; Harris, Joyce L.; Shamapant, ShilpaStroke has the ability to chronically alter both a person’s understanding and or use of language. Aphasia is a term that represents the loss or impairment of language function as a consequence of brain damage caused by a stroke and current data reveal that at least 25% of all strokes result in aphasia. Spouses often play a pivotal role in a stroke patient’s journey towards recovery. For this reason, there is a dire need for increased knowledge regarding spousal psychosocial welfare and increased insight into the experiences of these individual’s altered life situations. This paper considers aphasia, by nature of its deficits, a family disorder. Additionally, the contents of this paper explore the significance of caregiver coping strategies and ongoing caregiver involvement in recovery as a mechanism towards increased well being. Evidence to confirm the effects of stroke on spouses, as well as to support involvement of spouses in speech-language treatment to facilitate living well with aphasia, was obtained through primary and secondary research. Primary research was compiled through a telephone interview with the spouse of a 62-year-old male with aphasia while secondary research was conducted through an extensive literature search from 2000 to 2011.