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Informationen zum Autor Heidi Muenchberger , PhD, is associate professor of environmental psychology at Griffith Health Institute, Queensland, Australia. Elizabeth Kendall , PhD, is professor of community health and rehabilitation at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. John Wright is a rural scientist who has lived with a brain injury for over 40 years and is a strong advocate for disability and wellbeing in the community. Klappentext In this groundbreaking book, experts show what a difference support systems-family, friends, community and social programs-can make towards the recovery of the millions of people who suffer a traumatic brain injury each year. Health and Healing after Traumatic Brain Injury: Understanding the Power of Family, Friends, Community, and Other Support Systems stresses the importance of an integrated and systems approach to healing. This book offers a unique combination of practitioner perspectives on what works for individual patients, consumer stories and learned insights over time, as well as researcher insights from innovative programs. It provides a holistic account of the important factors in living with a brain injury that will inform and benefit health practitioners and policy makers as well as people with brain injuries and their family members and friends.The chapters explore the current best evidence and contemporary views on healing that draw on optimism, aspirational living, and meaningful partnerships. The authors focus on the emergent area of the salutogenic experience of injury-how brain injury changes and shapes lives in positive ways-and on the variables within individuals and their environments that provide a supportive influence in long-term healing. Inhaltsverzeichnis Series Foreword Catherine A. Marshall and Elizabeth Kendall, Series Editors Foreword James S. Brady Acknowledgments PART 1: SELF-DETERMINATION AND PERSONAL HEALING AFTER TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY John Wright Freedom Erica Anderson Chapter 1. Advice from the Heart: Stories of Survival and Growth following Brain Injury Lisa Guttentag Lederer Chapter 2. Neuroplasticity and Mindfulness in Brain Injury Rehabilitation: Cause for Great Optimism Anita Chauvin, Michelle McIntyre, and Glyn Blackett Chapter 3. The Subtlety of Brain Injury: Surviving and Thriving through Playfulness Susan Wenberg PART 2: PULLING TOGETHER RATHER THAN FALLING APART: BRAIN INJURY IN FAMILIES Elizabeth Kendall In Theory Erica Anderson Chapter 4. Family Resilience and Traumatic Brain Injury Michelle McIntyre and Elizabeth Kendall Chapter 5. Someone to Care: Social Support after Brain Injury Melissa Kendall Chapter 6. Too Small for Your Boots! Understanding the Experience of Children when Family Members Acquire a Neurological Condition Samantha Bursnall and Kenneth I. Pakenham Chapter 7. Assisting Siblings When Their Brother or Sister Sustains Acquired Brain Injury Samantha Bursnall PART 3: SYSTEMS FOR HEALING: BUILDING A BETTER SERVICE SYSTEM FOR TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY Heidi Muenchberger Sewing Erica Anderson Chapter 8. Understanding Mental Health Outcomes following Traumatic Brain Injury Maria Hennessy Chapter 9. The Role of Psychotherapy in Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury Rudi Coetzer Chapter 10. Optimal Rehabilitation for Women Who Receive Traumatic Brain Injury following Intimate Partner Violence Martha E. Banks Chapter 11. Holistic Neuropsychological Rehabilitation after Traumatic Brain Injury: Two Case Studies Barbara A. Wilson, Fiona Ashworth, and Jill Winegardner PART 4: PLACES, COMMUNITIES, AND CULTURES: DRAWING ON THE STRENGTH OF MANY Heidi Muenchberger Stand Erica Anderson
