Marie Matérne
QUALIFICATIONS:
PhD / registered health care counselor
ORGANISATION:
1) University Health care research center, Region Örebro County, Örebro Sweden
2) Faculty of Humanities and social sciences, Social Work, Örebro University, Örebro Sweden.
BRIEF BIOGRAPHY:
Marie started her career as an Assistant Nurse in the late 80s in a private rehabilitation clinic. She became a Social Worker in the early 90s and started to work in a tax founded rehabilitation clinic.
In the mid 90s she became in charge of an organisation that provided personal assistance for people with disabilities according to the Swedish law.
Between 2006 and 2013 she worked as the Head of an Adult Rehabilitation Centre with multidisciplinary teams that provided rehabilitation for people with brain injury, intellectual disability, neuropsychiatric disorders and other major physical impairments.
In 2018, Marie defended her thesis about return to work after acquired brain injury in Disability Research. She has continued working as a researcher after that in project about people with disabilities. One of her project is about people with Stroke and aspects of quality of life, resilience and physical, social, psychological and cognitive functions. The results of her research shows, among other things, that people with stroke do not accept their disability but adapt their lives to their abilities. The health care counsellor has an important role in the rehabilitation process.
INVOLVEMENT INSWABI:
In June 2016 Marie was appointed as an Executive Member of INSWABI. INSWABI helps to give her a broad perspective of practice and research within the acquired brain injury field.