Anita Rose

Barbara A. Wilson

Samira Kashinath Dhamapurkar

At the age of twenty eight Gary was assaulted by a gang with baseball bats and a hammer, resulting in several skull fractures and severe brain damage. For nineteen months he had little awareness of his surroundings before he started to show some recovery. This inspirational book documents his exceptional journey. The book presents a series of interviews with Gary, his mother Wendie, who never gave up, the medical team who initially treated him, and the therapists who worked with him over a period of three years. Through their testimony we learn about the devastating effects which can follow a serious assault to the head, and the long process of recovery over several years. With specialist rehabilitation and continuing family support Gary has exceeded expectations and, apart from some minor physical problems, he is now a normal young man. Surviving Brain Damage after Assault shows that, contrary to popular belief, considerable gains can be made by people who have experienced a long period of reduced consciousness. The book will be of great value to all professionals working in rehabilitation - psychologists, speech and language therapists, occupational therapists, social workers and rehabilitation doctors, and to people who have sustained a brain injury and their families.

From Vegetative State to Meaningful Life

Surviving Brain Damage After Assault

Jill Winegardner

Caroline M. van Heugten

Rehabilitación neuropsicológica. Manual internacional conjunta el trabajo de investigadores especializados en aspectos generales de la intervención neuropsicológica, en la atención de diversas poblaciones clínicas, en la rehabilitación de trastornos cognitivos específicos, rehabilitación de trastornos psicosociales, en métodos actuales de intervención, en temas emergentes y en tecnología aplicada a la rehabilitación, desde una perspectiva cultural y global. En este libro se mencionan los distintos alcances que puede tener un programa de rehabilitación pero se destaca sobre todo el enfoque holístico, de acuerdo con el cual la rehabilitación no debe limitarse a las funciones cognitivas, sino debe trabajarse en equipo para que el paciente, en la medida de lo posible, tenga una reinserción en su vida cotidiana con la mayor independencia posible. Por la forma tan actualizada, sintética y clara en la que se escribe cada capítulo este libro puede ser de interés y utilidad tanto para especialistas en neuropsicología y rehabilitación, a quienes les permite una actualización en temas específicos, como para aquellos lectores que estén iniciando su formación en la neuropsicología clínica y tomen este libro como un primer acercamiento a la rehabilitación neuropsicológica. De igual forma, los neurólogos, psiquiatras, terapeutas del lenguaje y psicólogos clínicos interesados en entender las repercusiones del daño cerebral y la labor de la rehabilitación neuropsicológica pueden encontrar en este manual información valiosa para guiar su trabajo clínico.

Manual internacional

Rehabilitación neuropsicológica

Juan Carlos Arango Lasprilla

Laiene Olabarrieta Landa

Principios de rehabilitación neuropsicológica surge con el propósito de convertirse en un libro de texto básico para alumnos y profesionales que quieren trabajar en el área. En él, se ofrece una visión actualizada, así como las técnicas y los procedimientos que han mostrado, mediante evidencia empírica, ser eficaces para ayudar al paciente que ha sufrido daño cerebral a recuperar su vida familiar, laboral y social, así como procurar su óptimo bienestar físico y psicológico. Cada uno de los capítulos del libro está escrito por destacados profesionales en el área de la rehabilitación neuropsicológica en el mundo. Con 16 capítulos, el libro aborda desde los principios históricos y teóricos de la rehabilitación neuropsicológica, hasta los procesos cognitivos que suelen verse afectados luego de un daño cerebral, pero sin dejar de lado la parte emocional y conductual, el libro tiene el objetivo de ayudar en la formación de los profesionales y ser una guía en su trabajo diario.

Principios de rehabilitación neuropsicológica

Alan D. Baddeley

Michael Kopelman

This concise version of the Handbook of Memory Disorders is a selection of chapters from the original volume that have been chosen with the busy practitioner in mind. The Essential Handbook provides individual clinicians and students with those parts the editors consider most relevant and useful on a day-to-day basis, as a portable adjunct to the more comprehensive Handbook. (Handbook of Memory Disorders - 047 149819X)

The Essential Handbook of Memory Disorders for Clinicians

Tamara Ownsworth

This outstanding new handbook offers unique coverage of all aspects of neuropsychological rehabilitation. Compiled by the world’s leading clinician-researchers, and written by an exceptional team of international contributors, the book is vast in scope, including chapters on the many and varied components of neuropsychological rehabilitation across the life span within one volume. Divided into sections, the first part looks at general issues in neuropsychological rehabilitation including theories and models, assessment and goal setting. The book goes on to examine the different populations referred for neuropsychological rehabilitation and then focuses on the rehabilitation of first cognitive and then psychosocial disorders. New and emerging approaches such as brain training and social robotics are also considered, alongside an extensive section on rehabilitation around the world, particularly in under-resourced settings. The final section offers some general conclusions and an evaluation of the key issues in this important field. This is a landmark publication for neuropsychological rehabilitation. It is the standalone reference text for the field as well as essential reading for all researchers, students and practitioners in clinical neuropsychology, clinical psychology, occupational therapy, and speech and language therapy. It will also be of great value to those in related professions such as neurologists, rehabilitation physicians, rehabilitation psychologists and medics.

The International Handbook

Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Michael John Wilson

When clinical psychologist Barbara Wilson was faced with the devastating loss of her adult daughter Sarah, her professional skills were sorely tested. How she, her husband Mick, and their family came to terms with their loss is detailed in First Year, Worst Year, a moving memoir of survival during and after bereavement. Filled with photos of the Wilson family and their journey retracing the last moments of their daughter, who perished in a rafting accident in Peru, this book is a testament to the resilience of the human heart, even after it’s been broken.

Coping with the unexpected death of our grown-up daughter

First Year, Worst Year

From a well-known authority, this comprehensive yet accessible book shows how state-of-the-art research can be applied to help people with nonprogressive memory disorders improve their functioning and quality of life. Barbara Wilson describes a broad range of interventions, including compensatory aids, learning strategies, and techniques for managing associated anxiety and stress. She reviews the evidence base for each clinical strategy or tool and offers expert guidance on how to assess patients, set treatment goals, develop individualized rehabilitation programs, and conduct memory groups. The book also provides essential background knowledge on the nature and causes of memory impairment.

Integrating Theory and Practice

Memory Rehabilitation

Fiona Ashworth

This is the first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of people who have survived injury to the brain, along with professional therapists' reports of their progress through rehabilitation. The paintings and stories of survivors combine with experts' discussions of the theory and practice of brain injury rehabilitation to illustrate the ups and downs that survivors encounter in their journey from pre-injury status to insult and post-injury rehabilitation. Wilson, Winegardner and Ashworth's focus on the survivors' perspective shows how rehabilitation is an interactive process between people with brain injury, health care staff, and others, and gives the survivors the chance to tell their own stories of life before their injury, the nature of the insult, their early treatment, and subsequent rehabilitation. Presenting practical approaches to help survivors of brain injury achieve functionally relevant and meaningful goals, Life After Brain Injury: Survivors’ Stories will help all those working in rehabilitation understand the principles involved in holistic brain injury rehabilitation and how these principles, combined with theory and models, translate into clinical practice. This book will be of great interest to anyone who wishes to extend their knowledge of the latest theories and practices involved in making life more manageable for people who have suffered damage to the brain. Life After Brain Injury: Survivors’ Stories will also be essential for clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, and anybody dealing with acquired brain injury whether they be a survivor of a brain injury themselves, a relative, a friend or a carer.

Survivors' Stories

Life After Brain Injury

This vivid book presents 20 case studies of adults with severe brain injury. It describes the premorbid lifestyle of each of these individuals, the onset of their brain damage, subsequent symptoms, neuropsychological assessment, rehabilitation, and long-term outcome.

Case Studies in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation

Claire Robertson

Joe Mole

Imagine being unable to recognise your spouse, your children, or even yourself when you look in the mirror, despite having good eyesight and being able to read well and name objects. This is a condition which, in rare cases, some brain injury survivors experience every day. Identity Unknown gives an exceptional, poignant and in-depth understanding of what it is like to live with the severe after-effects of brain damage caused by a viral infection of the brain. It tells the story of Claire, a nurse, wife, and mother of four, who having survived encephalitis, was left with an inability to recognise faces – a condition also known as prosopagnosia together with a loss of knowledge of people and more general loss of semantic memory Part One describes our current knowledge of encephalitis, of perception and memory, and the theoretical aspects of prosopagnosia and semantic memory. Part Two, told in Claire’s own words, is an account of her life before her illness, her memories of the early days in hospital, an account of the treatment she received at the Oliver Zangwill Centre, and her description of the long-term consequences of encephalitis. Claire’s profound insights, clear writing style, and powerful portrayal of her feelings provide us with a moving insider’s view of her condition. These chapters also contain additional commentary from Barbara Wilson, providing further detail about the condition, treatment possibilities, potential outcomes, and follow-up options. Identity Unknown provides a unique personal insight into a condition which many of us have, for too long, known too little about. It will be of great interest to a broad audience including professionals working in rehabilitation settings, and all those who have sustained a brain injury, their families and carers.

How acute brain disease can destroy knowledge of oneself and others

Identity Unknown

Peter Muecke Attiwill

Ecology: An Australian Perspective is uniquely and wholly Australian. It is the only textbook of ecology that deals comprehensively with the ecological principles and practice of plant and animal ecology in an Australian context.

Barbara A. Wilson

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