Health and Healing after Traumatic Brain Injury (eBook, PDF)

Understanding the Power of Family, Friends, Community, and Other Support Systems
Redaktion: Muenchberger, Heidi; Wright, John J.; Kendall, Elizabeth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Publishing Inc
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Altersempfehlung: ab 7 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Mai 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781440828874
• Artikelnr.: 68184136

Autorenporträt

Heidi Muenchberger, PhD, is associate professor of environmental psychology at Griffith Health Institute, Queensland, Australia. Elizabeth Kendall, PhD, is professor of community health and rehabilitation at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. John Wright is a rural scientist who has lived with a brain injury for over 40 years and is a strong advocate for disability and wellbeing in the community.

Inhaltsangabe

Series Foreword Catherine A. Marshall and Elizabeth Kendall, Series Editors
Foreword James S. Brady Acknowledgments PART 1: SELF-DETERMINATION AND
PERSONAL HEALING AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY John Wright Freedom Erica
Anderson Chapter 1. Advice from the Heart: Stories of Survival and Growth
following Brain Injury Lisa Guttentag Lederer Chapter 2. Neuroplasticity
and Mindfulness in Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Cause for Great Optimism
Anita Chauvin, Michelle McIntyre, and Glyn Blackett Chapter 3. The Subtlety
of Brain Injury: Surviving and Thriving through Playfulness Susan Wenberg
PART 2: PULLING TOGETHER RATHER THAN FALLING APART: BRAIN INJURY IN
FAMILIES Elizabeth Kendall In Theory Erica Anderson Chapter 4. Family
Resilience and Traumatic Brain Injury Michelle McIntyre and Elizabeth
Kendall Chapter 5. Someone to Care: Social Support after Brain Injury
Melissa Kendall Chapter 6. Too Small for Your Boots! Understanding the
Experience of Children when Family Members Acquire a Neurological Condition
Samantha Bursnall and Kenneth I. Pakenham Chapter 7. Assisting Siblings
When Their Brother or Sister Sustains Acquired Brain Injury Samantha
Bursnall PART 3: SYSTEMS FOR HEALING: BUILDING A BETTER SERVICE SYSTEM FOR
TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Heidi Muenchberger Sewing Erica Anderson Chapter 8.
Understanding Mental Health Outcomes following Traumatic Brain Injury
Maria Hennessy Chapter 9. The Role of Psychotherapy in Rehabilitation after
Traumatic Brain Injury Rudi Coetzer Chapter 10. Optimal Rehabilitation for
Women Who Receive Traumatic Brain Injury following Intimate Partner
Violence Martha E. Banks Chapter 11. Holistic Neuropsychological
Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury: Two Case Studies Barbara A.
Wilson, Fiona Ashworth, and Jill Winegardner PART 4: PLACES, COMMUNITIES,
AND CULTURES: DRAWING ON THE STRENGTH OF MANY Heidi Muenchberger Stand
Erica Anderson Chapter 12. "There's No Place Like Home": The Experience of
Home for Young People with Acquired Brain Injury in Residential Care
Environments Hayley Danielle Quinn Chapter 13. 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, and Russell Bowen Chapter 14. Culture, Disability,
and Caregiving for People with Traumatic Brain Injury Paul Leung Chapter
15. Community Leaders within a Brain Injury Self-management Program: A
Valuable Resource Heidi Muenchberger, Areti Kennedy, and Elizabeth Kendall
A Last Word: Charting a Positive Course for the Future Elizabeth Kendall
Index About the Editors and Contributors