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Title Health and healing after traumatic brain injury : understanding the power of family, friends, community, and other support systems / Heidi Muenchberger, Elizabeth Kendall, and John Wright, editors ; foreword by James S. Brady, former White House Press Secretary
Published Santa Barbara, Calif. : Praeger, [2013]
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 260 pages) : illustrations
Series Disability insights and issues
Disability insights and issues.
Contents Advice from the heart stories of survival and growth following brain injury / Lisa Guttentag Lederer -- Neuroplasticity and mindfulness in brain injury rehabilitation: cause for great optimism / Anita Chauvin, Michelle McIntyre, Glyn Blackett -- The subtlety of brain injury: surviving and thriving through playfulness / Susan Wenberg -- Family resilience and traumatic brain injury / Michelle McIntyre, Elizabeth Kendall -- Someone to care: social support after brain injury / Melissa Kendall -- Too small for your boots! Understanding the experience of children when family members acquire a neurological condition / Samantha Bursnall, Kenneth I. Pakenham -- Assisting siblings when their brother or sister sustains acquired brain injury / Samantha Bursnall -- Understanding mental health outcomes following traumatic brain injury / Maria Hennessy -- The role of psychotherapy in rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury / Rudi Coetzer -- Optimal rehabilitation for women who receive traumatic brain injury following Intimate partner violence / Martha E. Banks -- Holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: two case studies / Barbara A. Wilson, Fiona Ashworth, Jill Winegardner -- "There's no place like home": the experience of home for young people with acquired brain injury in residential care environments / Hayley Danielle Quinn -- The international community-based rehabilitation model: a way of assisting people with brain injuries, their families, and communities / Pim Kuipers, Susan Gauld, Melissa Kendall, Sharon Smith, Russell Bowen -- Culture, disability, and caregiving for people with traumatic brain injury / Paul Leung -- Community leaders within a brain injury self-management program: a valuable resource / Heidi Muenchberger, Areti Kennedy, Elizabeth Kendall
Summary Health and Healing after Traumatic Brain Injury: Understanding the Power of Family, Friends, Community, and Other Support Systems stresses the importance of an integrated and systems approach to healing. This book offers a unique combination of practitioner perspectives on what works for individual patients, consumer stories and learned insights over time, as well as researcher insights from innovative programs. It provides a holistic account of the important factors in living with a brain injury that will inform and benefit health practitioners and policy makers as well as people with brain injuries and their family members and friends. The chapters explore the current best evidence and contemporary views on healing that draw on optimism, aspirational living, and meaningful partnerships. The authors focus on the emergent area of the salutogenic experience of injury--how brain injury changes and shapes lives in positive ways--and on the variables within individuals and their environments that provide a supportive influence in long-term healing
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
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Subject Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Brain Injuries -- rehabilitation
Social Support
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare.
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation
Form Electronic book
Author Muenchberger, Heidi, editor.
Kendall, Elizabeth, 1963-
Wright, John, active 2012.
ISBN 9781440828874
1440828873