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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828892203321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, Calif. : , : Praeger, , 2013

New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024

ISBN

979-84-00-66223-2

979-82-16-09493-7

1-4408-2886-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Collana

Disability insights and issues

Altri autori (Persone)

KendallElizabeth <1963->

MuenchbergerHeidi

WrightJohn <active 2012.>

Disciplina

362.1974/81

Soggetti

Brain - Wounds and injuries

Brain Injuries - rehabilitation

Social Support

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

"In this groundbreaking book, experts show what a difference support systems--family, friends, community and social programs--can make towards the recovery of the millions of people who suffer a traumatic700 brain injury each year"--Provided by publisher.