Main description:

Grounded in a holistic approach, this state-of-the-art workbook provides tools and resources for supporting clients with nonprogressive brain injury. Effective strategies are described for building skills and teaching compensatory strategies in such areas as attention, memory, executive functions, mood, and communication. Particular attention is given to facilitating the challenging process of identity change following a life-altering injury. In a large-size format for easy photocopying, the volume features 93 reproducible client handouts. Purchasers get access to a Web page where they can download and print the reproducible materials.

Contents:

1. General Introduction, Barbara A. Wilson
2. Introduction to Brain Anatomy and Mechanisms of Injury, Emily Grader and Andrew Bateman
3. Attention, Jessica Fish, Kathrin Hicks, and Susan Brentnall
4. Memory, Jessica Fish and Susan Brentnall
5. Executive Functions, Jill Winegardner
6. Communication, Clare Keohane and Leyla Prince
7. Fatigue, Donna Malley
8. Mood, Catherine Longworth Ford
9. Working with Identity Change after Brain Injury, Fergus Gracey, Leyla Prince, and Rachel Winson
10. Working with Families after Brain Injury, Leyla Prince
Index