Dr Sarah Prescott
Casual Academic
School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences
Research Fellow
Faculty of Health, Medicine and Behavioural Sciences
Researcher biography
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.
Journal Articles
Fleming, Jennifer, Prescott, Sarah, Claridge, Larissa, Doig, Emmah, Copley, Anna, Finch, Emma, Kerr, Christina and Henry, Julie (2024). Capacity building for providers of cognitive rehabilitation in Queensland: a needs analysis survey. Brain Impairment, 25 (1) IB23062, 1-12. doi: 10.1071/ib23062
Killey, Jessica, Simons, Megan, Prescott, Sarah, Kimble, Roy and Tyack, Zephanie (2023). Becoming experts in their own treatment: child and caregiver engagement with burn scar treatments. Qualitative Health Research, 33 (6), 1-13. doi: 10.1177/10497323231161997
Fleming, Jennifer, Ownsworth, Tamara, Doig, Emmah, Swan, Sarah, Prescott, Sarah, Hamilton, Caitlin and Shum, David H. K. (2022). Improving self-awareness of prospective memory function after TBI using experiential feedback on a board game activity: an observational study. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, 32 (8), 1-24. doi: 10.1080/09602011.2022.2044863
Doig, Emmah, Prescott, Sarah, Pick, Valerie, Turner, Ben, Suleman, Sameera, Douglas, David and Foster, Michele (2022). Normalising interdisciplinary role-based goal setting in inpatient brain injury rehabilitation: reflections and recommendations of clinicians. Disability and Rehabilitation, 45 (4), 1-11. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2022.2040612
Pigott, Amanda, Patterson, Freyr, Prescott, Sarah, Doig, Emmah, Fleming, Jennifer, “Impact of SRSD of groups placement” project team, Fitzgerald, Cate, Laracy, Sue, Searles, Jacqueline, McKenzie, Amy, Strong, Jenny, Tornatore, Giovanna and Whitehead, Mary (2021). Exploring the patient perspectives of student‐resourced service delivery of rehabilitation groups: a qualitative study. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 69 (2), 140-150. doi: 10.1111/1440-1630.12776
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer and Doig, Emmah (2019). Effect of self-awareness on goal engagement and outcomes after acquired brain injury. British Journal of Occupational Therapy, 82 (12), 030802261985143-731. doi: 10.1177/0308022619851434
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer and Doig, Emmah (2019). Refining a clinical practice framework to engage clients with brain injury in goal setting. Australian Occupational Therapy Journal, 66 (3), 313-325. doi: 10.1111/1440-1630.12556
Prescott, Sarah, Doig, Emmah, Fleming, Jennifer and Weir, Nicole (2019). Goal statements in brain injury rehabilitation: a cohort study of client-centredness and relationship with goal outcome. Brain Impairment, 20 (3), 226-239. doi: 10.1017/BrImp.2019.6
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer and Doig, Emmah (2017). Rehabilitation goal setting with community dwelling adults with acquired brain injury: a theoretical framework derived from clinicians' reflections on practice. Disability and Rehabilitation, 40 (20), 1-12. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2017.1336644
Doig, Emmah, Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer, Cornwell, Petrea and Kuipers, Pim (2016). Reliability of the Client-Centeredness of Goal Setting (C-COGS) Scale in Acquired Brain Injury Rehabilitation. The American Journal of Occupational Therapy, 70 (4) 7004290010, 7004290010-7004290010p8. doi: 10.5014/ajot.2016.017046
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer and Doig, Emmah (2015). Goal setting approaches and principles used in rehabilitation for people with acquired brain injury: A systematic scoping review. Brain Injury, 29 (13-14), 1515-1529. doi: 10.3109/02699052.2015.1075152
Doig, Emmah, Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer, Cornwell, Petrea and Kuipers, Pim (2015). Development and construct validation of the Client-Centredness of Goal Setting (C-COGS) scale. Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy, 22 (4), 302-310. doi: 10.3109/11038128.2015.1017530
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
Conference Papers
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jenny and Doig, Emmah (2019). Comparison of goal engagement and outcomes for individuals with changes in self-awareness after acquired brain injury. 28th National OT Australia Conference, Sydney, Australia, 10-12 July 2019. Richmond, VIC, Australia: Wiley-Blackwell.
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jennifer, Doig, Emmah and Weir, Nicole (2018). Comparison of goal engagement and outcomes for individuals with changes in self-awareness after acquired brain injury. Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 41st Annual Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 3-5 May 2018. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Page, Caitlin, Prescott, Sarah, Doig, Emmah and Fleming, Jennifer (2018). Are therapists’ factors associated with client-centred goal setting in brain injury rehabilitation?. Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 41st Annual Conference, Adelaide, Australia, 3-5 May 2018. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Doig, Emmah, Fleming, Jenny, Prescott, Sarah, Cornwell, Petrea and Kuipers, Pim (2017). Development, construct validation and reliability of a new scale: the client-centredness of goal setting scale . Occupational Therapy Australia 27th National Conference and Exhibition , Perth, WA Australia, 19-21 July 2017. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell.
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jenny and Doig, Emmah (2017). Rehabilitation goal setting with community dwelling adults with acquired brain injury: a theoretical framework derived from clinicians reflections on clinical practice. Australian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment 40th Annual Conference, Melbourne, Australia, 1-3 June 2017. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
Prescott, Sarah, Fleming, Jenny and Doig, Emmah (2016). Therapists’ reflections regarding goal setting with community dwelling adults with acquired brain injury: a theoretically derived framework to guide practice. The Australasian Society for the Study of Brain Impairment ASSBI 39th Annual Brain Impairment Conference, Cotai Central, Macau, 26–28 September 2016. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press.
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.
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.
Thesis
Prescott, Sarah (2018). Client-centred goal setting in the rehabilitation of community dwelling clients with acquired brain injury. PhD Thesis, School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/uql.2018.774