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Title 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.

Publication Info. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2013.

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Description 1 online resource (275 pages) : illustrations.
text rdacontent
computer rdamedia
online resource rdacarrier
Series Disability insights and issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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.
Note Description based on print version record.
Subject Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Patients -- Rehabilitation.
Brain -- Wounds and injuries -- Treatment.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Kendall, Elizabeth, 1963-
Muenchberger, Heidi.
Wright, John, active 2012.
Other Form: Print version: Health and healing after traumatic brain injury : understanding the power of family, friends, community, and other support systems. Santa Barbara, California : Praeger, 2013 xii, 260 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. Disability insights and issues 9781440828867 (OCoLC)822991633 (OCoLC)805057642 (DLC) 2012050993
ISBN 9781440828867
9781440828874 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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