Aurora Lassaletta Atienza

The Invisible Brain Injury (eBook, PDF)

Cognitive Impairments in Traumatic Brain Injury, Stroke and other Acquired Brain Pathologies

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This unique book is written by a qualified clinical psychologist who has also suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI). It gives her perspectives both as a patient and as a clinician, on the less visible cognitive, emotional and behavioural symptoms common to TBI.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 156
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. November 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000727975
• Artikelnr.: 58043728

Autorenporträt

Aurora Lassaletta had to stop her work as a psychotherapist in a public mental health service in 2005 due to her TBI. She undertook a path of learning and improvement that she still follows today. At her new pace, Aurora enjoys helping other survivors learn to live with ABI through psychological support groups.

Inhaltsangabe

List of contributors
About the author
Note
Preface
PART 1: THE INVISIBLE BRAIN INJURY
1. The invisible brain injury - Aurora Lassaletta
Introduction
The history of the book
PART 2: COGNITIVE SYMPTOMS
2. Cognitive symptoms related to attention - Aurora Lassaletta and Amor
Bize
Neurological fatigue: continuous energy calculations
Attention difficulties
Just one intense thing a day! The saturated hard drive
Brain sluggishness. Orders take time to arrive.
3. Cognitive symptoms related to executive functions - Aurora Lassaletta
and Amor Bize
Need for external guidance with organisation
Complicated decision-making
Difficulty adapting to changes
Impaired creativity
4. Cognitive symptoms related to memory - Aurora Lassaletta and Amor Bize
Memory difficulty: the need for "cognitive crutches"
Slow learning curve
Not learning from experience, nor remembering it
5. Cognitive symptoms related to thinking - Aurora Lassaletta and Amor Bize
Difficulty summarising
Concrete thinking
6. Cognitive symptoms related to lack of awareness - Aurora Lassaletta and
Amor Bize
Lack of awareness of the real situation
PART 3: BEHAVIOURAL, EMOTIONAL AND PHYSICAL SYMPTOMS
7. Behavioural symptoms - Aurora Lassaletta and Amor Bize
Impulsivity and verbal incontinence
Tendency to passivity
Loss of improvisation
8. Emotional symptoms - Aurora Lassaletta and Amor Bize
Affective flattening and emotional inexpressiveness
9. Physical symptoms - Aurora Lassaletta and Susana Pajares
Body awareness and sensitivity
Sleep disturbance and loss of satiety sensation
Loss of balance
Hypersensitivity to medications
Asymmetry
Auditory and optical hypersensitivity, diplopia, hyposalivation
PART 4: LONG-TERM ADJUSTMENT AND CONCLUSIONS
10. Identity reconstruction - Aurora Lassaletta and Christian Salas
Long term emotional adjustment following an ABI
Awareness of deficits and integrating the new me
Internalising compensatory tools
11. Concluding remarks - Aurora Lassaletta
References
Index