Living With Brain Injury : A Guide for Families and Caregivers /

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"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: Offer, Penny (Editor), Acorn, Sonia Griffin (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Caregivers.
Brain damage > Patients > Family relationships.
Brain damage > Patients > Care.
Brain damage.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
Familles.
Tête > Lesions et blessures.
Cerveau > Lesions et blessures.
Aidants naturels.
Personnes atteintes de lesions cerebrales > Soins.
Cerveau > Lesions et blessures > Ouvrages de vulgarisation.
Personnes atteintes de lesions cerebrales > Relations familiales.
Personnes atteintes de lesions cerebrales > Readaptation.
Caregivers
Family
Brain Damage, Chronic
Craniocerebral Trauma
Brain Injuries
Brain damage > Patients > Rehabilitation.
Head > Wounds and injuries.
Brain damage > Popular works.
Popular works.
Popular Work
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
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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