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This hands-on volume is both manual and workbook, designed to be used alongside the Understanding Brain Injury Group. This group aims to increase the understanding and acknowledgement of acquired brain injury and find ways of coping with the consequences.
List of contents
1. Why create this manual?
2. Introducing the group
3. Session 1 – What is the Understanding Brain Injury group?
4: Session 2 – The brain and brain Injury
5. Session 3 – What is rehabilitation?
6. Session 4 – Physical changes after brain Injury
7. Session 5 – Thinking changes after brain Injury
8. Session 6 – Mood and behaviour changes after brain Injury
9. Session 7 – Lifestyle changes after brain Injury
10. Session 8 – My goals for the future
Appendices
Appendix 1. Areas of the brain
Appendix 2. List of physical vhanges
Appendix 3. Example spider diagram of physical changes
Appendix 4. List of cognitive changes
Appendix 5. Example spider diagram of thinking ability changes
Appendix 6. Example spider diagram of mood and behaviour changes
Appendix 7. List of lifestyle changes
Appendix 8. Example spider diagram of lifestyle changes
Appendix 9. Certificate of attendance
Patient Workbook
About the author
Dr Rebekah Jamieson-Craig is a qualified Clinical Psychologist from University College London, UK, and is currently employed by Barts Health NHS Trust. Throughout her career, she has had an interest in neurological conditions, and has worked within a brain injury neurorehabilitation unit, as well as several other neurorehabilitation settings.
Summary
This hands-on volume is both manual and workbook, designed to be used alongside the Understanding Brain Injury Group. This group aims to increase the understanding and acknowledgement of acquired brain injury and find ways of coping with the consequences.
