Living with brain injury : a guide for families and caregivers

Living with brain injury : a guide for families and caregivers / edited by Sonia Acorn and Penny Offer.

"An injury to the brain can affect every aspect of a person's daily life, including physical abilities and psychological make-up, relationships and family roles, school and employment, recreation and leisure. In this handy reference book, health-care and legal experts from Canada and the U...

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Other Authors: Acorn, Sonia Griffin (Editor), Offer, Penny (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Series:Heritage
Subjects:
Brain damage > Popular works.
Brain damage > Patients > Family relationships.
Brain damage > Patients > Care.
Caregivers.
Head > Wounds and injuries.
Brain damage > Patients > Rehabilitation.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
Head > Wounds and injuries
Brain damage > Patients > Rehabilitation
Brain damage
Brain damage > Patients > Care
Brain damage > Patients > Family relationships
Caregivers
Popular works
Online Access:Click for online access
Table of Contents:
  • What is a brain injury? / John Higenbottam
  • Survivor's view / Charles G. Ottewell
  • After the brain injury-- the rehabilitation team / John Higenbottam
  • Hospital-- and after / Rick Brown
  • Case management / John Simpson
  • Long-term adjustment following significant brain injury / Mary Pepping
  • 'Rime' of the survivor / David Blanche
  • Psychosocial effects of brain injury / J. David Seaton
  • Children and adolescents with brain injury / Marilyn Unger
  • Couple issues after brain injury / Patrick Hirschi, Claudia Berwald, Rick Brown
  • Brain injury and the family system / Carroll O. David
  • Legal issues following brain injury / R. Brian Webster
  • Leisure and recreation / Anne Sulzberger, Charles Killingsworth
  • Family as caregiver / Sonia Acorn
  • Second look / Charles G. Ottewell.

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