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

• Pubblicazione: Santa Barbara, California : , : Praeger, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (275 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.1974/81
• Soggetto topico: Brain - Wounds and injuries - Patients - Rehabilitation; Brain - Wounds and injuries - Treatment
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: KendallElizabeth <1963-> MuenchbergerHeidi WrightJohn <active 2012.>
• 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 traumatic brain injury each year.
• Titolo autorizzato: Health and healing after traumatic brain injury
• ISBN: 1-4408-2886-5
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463455803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Disability Insights and Issues