1st Edition

Group-Based Interventions for 'Understanding Brain Injury' A Manual and Workbook for Practitioners and Patients

By Rebekah Jamieson-Craig Copyright 2024
98 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

98 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

98 Pages 186 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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. The manual section outlines the steps needed for practitioners to run the Understanding Brain Injury Group successfully, and the workbook... Read more

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

Biography

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.