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.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Disability insights and issuesPublisher: Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2013Description: 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781440828874 (e-book)
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health and healing after traumatic brain injury : understanding the power of family, friends, community, and other support systems.DDC classification:
  • 362.1974/81 23
LOC classification:
  • RD594 .H43 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Part 1. Self-Determination and Personal Healing After Traumatic Brain Injury. Advice from the heart: stories of survival and growth following brain injury -- Neuroplasticity and mindfulness in brain injury rehabilitation: cause for great optimism -- The subtlety of brain injury: surviving and thriving through playfulness -- Part 2. Pulling Together rather than Falling Apart: Brain Injury in Families. Family resilience and traumatic brain injury -- Someone to care: social support after brain injury -- Too small for your boots! Understanding the experience of children when family members acquire a neurological condition -- Assisting siblings when their brother or sister acquired brain injury -- Part 3. Systems for Healing: Building a Better Service System for Traumatic Brain Injury -- Understanding mental health outcomes following traumatic brain injury -- The role of psychotherapy in rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury -- Optimal rehabilitation for women who receive traumatic brain injury following intimate partner violence -- Holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: two case studies -- Part 4. Places, Communities, and Cultures: Drawing on the Strength of Many -- There's no place like home: the experience of home for young people with acquired brain injury in residential care environments -- The international community-based rehabilitation model: a way of assisting people with brain injuries, their families, and communities -- Culture, disability, and caregiving for people with traumatic brain injury -- Community leaders within a brain injury self-management program: a valuable resource -- A last word: charting a positive course for the future.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Part 1. Self-Determination and Personal Healing After Traumatic Brain Injury. Advice from the heart: stories of survival and growth following brain injury -- Neuroplasticity and mindfulness in brain injury rehabilitation: cause for great optimism -- The subtlety of brain injury: surviving and thriving through playfulness -- Part 2. Pulling Together rather than Falling Apart: Brain Injury in Families. Family resilience and traumatic brain injury -- Someone to care: social support after brain injury -- Too small for your boots! Understanding the experience of children when family members acquire a neurological condition -- Assisting siblings when their brother or sister acquired brain injury -- Part 3. Systems for Healing: Building a Better Service System for Traumatic Brain Injury -- Understanding mental health outcomes following traumatic brain injury -- The role of psychotherapy in rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury -- Optimal rehabilitation for women who receive traumatic brain injury following intimate partner violence -- Holistic neuropsychological rehabilitation after traumatic brain injury: two case studies -- Part 4. Places, Communities, and Cultures: Drawing on the Strength of Many -- There's no place like home: the experience of home for young people with acquired brain injury in residential care environments -- The international community-based rehabilitation model: a way of assisting people with brain injuries, their families, and communities -- Culture, disability, and caregiving for people with traumatic brain injury -- Community leaders within a brain injury self-management program: a valuable resource -- A last word: charting a positive course for the future.

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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