Severe and Profound Brain Injury - A Clinicians Guide to Complex Neuro-Disability

Severe and Profound Brain Injury is a comprehensive guide offering clinicians practical tools, techniques and ways to structure thinking in approaching how to best assess and provide neurorehabilitation to patients with the most overwhelming and complex neuro-disability.

List of contents

Chapter 1. An introduction and reflection on the challenges of working with adults with catastrophic brain injury. Chapter 2. What's in a name?. Chapter 3. Approaches to assessment and neurorehabilitation in complex neuro-disability. Chapter 4. Approaches to cognition in complex neuro-disability. Chapter 5. Approaches to neurobehaviour in complex neuro-disability. Chapter 6. Emotion in complex neuro-disability. Chapter 7. How do we make sense of the presentation? Complex case formulation. Chapter 8. Working with people with prolonged disorders of consciousness. Chapter 9. Working with people with locked in syndrome. Chapter 10. Working with families in complex neuro-disability. Chapter 11. Effective team working with people with complex neuro-disability. Afterword.

About the author

Sonja Soeterik is a consultant clinical psychologist (UK) and a registered clinical neuropsychologist (NZ). She has led specialist complex neuro-disability services both in the community and inpatient settings. Her interests include working with so-called hard to assess people and complex mental capacity decision-making.
Sal Connolly is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist who has led and developed specialist services in nationally and internationally recognised centres for people with brain injury. Her interests include working with the teams around people with complex neuro-disability including their children, families, and multi-professional teams.
Sarah Crawford is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist and is currently the Professional Lead for Clinical Psychology and the Lead Clinician for mental capacity at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Her research interests include mood, cognition, and communication in severe and profound brain injury.

Product details

• Authors: Sal Connolly, Sarah Crawford, Sonja Soeterik, Sonja Connolly Soeterik
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.10.2025
• EAN: 9781032665962
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3266596-2
• No. of pages: 182
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; MEDICAL / Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, MEDICAL / Critical Care, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, MEDICAL / Allied Health Services / Occupational Therapy, MEDICAL / Hospital Administration & Care, MEDICAL / Long-Term Care, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Occupational Therapy, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Speech and language disorders and therapy, Speech & language disorders & therapy, Physiological psychology, neuropsychology, biopsychology