Women’s Health NSW ran an event called Women, Violence and Brain Injury in late 2025. It brought together a range of experts on women’s brain injuries resulting from violence. These short stories are drawn from the presentations of our speakers. In this short story, Phoebe Nagorcka-Smith points out that we don’t have an accurate national…
In this HealthEd podcast, Lara Graves, psychologist and researcher for the Salvation Army, explores the complex presentation of brain injuries as a result of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Graves discusses the barriers to diagnosing and managing brain injuries caused by violence, emphasising the overlap between symptoms of brain injury, experiences of trauma, mood disorders…
In this HealthEd podcast, colleagues from the Mid Western Brain Injury Rehabilitation Program, Dr Josephine Braid, a Rehabilitation Medicine Physician, and Molly Banks, a Speech Pathologist and Program Manager, remind healthcare providers of the importance of investigating and managing brain injuries resulting from domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). Dr Braid and Ms Banks explore…
Experiences of domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV) can lead to brain injuries from strangulation, suffocation, blows to the head and neck, and being shaken violently. Despite the strong link between DFSV and brain injuries, there remains limited information to support women who have a brain injury resulting from violence. This practitioner guide is designed…
The Recovering from brain injury booklet is designed to fill the gap in resources available to women who have a brain injury caused by domestic, family and sexual violence (DFSV). It does this by providing information directly to the woman, and by creating an opportunity for service providers to work with the woman to create…