1st Edition
Psychological Therapy for Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury Innovations for Children, Young People and Families
List of illustrations
Editors’ acknowledgements
About the editors
List of contributors
Preface
Series editor’s foreword
Experts by experience reflections
INTRODUCTION
Jenny Jim and Heather Liddiard
PART I: GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER ONE
"My life story" by the brain
Jenny Jim
CHAPTER TWO
An introduction to paediatric acquired brain injury
Daniel Stark, Suresh Pujar, Isobel Heyman and Tara Murphy
CHAPTER THREE
Assessment in paediatric acquired brain injury
Suzanna Watson and Fergus Gracey
CHAPTER FOUR
Using biopsychosocial formulations in paediatric neurorehabilitation
Jenny Jim and Heather Liddiard
PART II: INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY
CHAPTER FIVE
Narrative-inspired interview with the brain
Jenny Jim
CHAPTER SIX
Child-centred play therapy for trauma: from non-verbal to narrative expression
Anne Fullalove
CHAPTER SEVEN
Structured narrative therapy for children with severe acquired brain injury and severe communication difficulties
Alison Perkins
CHAPTER EIGHT
Systemic and narrative therapeutic work with families whose child has sustained a profound brain injury
Rachel Ames
CHAPTER NINE
Narrative approaches for behaviour that challenges post-injury
Esther Cole
CHAPTER TEN
The ‘Beads of Life’ approach adapted for young people with an acquired brain injury
Sara Portnoy and Liz Ireland
CHAPTER ELEVEN
Systemic storytelling following childhood acquired brain injury: a family business
Sarah Helps
CHAPTER TWELVE
Psychotherapy for children and young people with brain injury in conflict with the law
Huw Williams, James Tonks, and Simone Fox
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The road to transition: a SHARED model
Laura Carroll, Elizabeth Roberts and Gemma Costello
PART III: WHAT DIFFERENCES CAN WE MAKE?
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Reflections on outcome measurement in child neuropsychological rehabilitation: a child-centred approach
Katie Byard and Sophie Gosling
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Our children do deserve better
Jenny Jim, Heather Liddiard and Esther Cole
Appendix: Theory-practice links in "Narrative inspired interview with the brain"
Name index
Subject index
Biography
Jenny Jim (DClinPsy, MSc, BSc (Hons)) is a Consultant and Principal Clinical Psychologist with a passion for improving the lives of children, young people and families affected by acquired brain injury. Dr. Jim is the Deputy Programme Director (Clinical) of the Professional Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of East London. She is a clinical academic who works with families, develops and researches innovations, lectures and trains clinical psychologists for the NHS.
Esther Cole (PsychD, MA (Oxon.)) is a Highly Specialist Clinical Psychologist who worked in the NHS for 12 years in different roles and now works in the private sector across the lifespan. Her most recent position is within a community multidisciplinary paediatric therapy centre in South West London. Dr. Cole's therapeutic orientations and research interests are broad and include investigating the effective integration of psychological approaches for adults and children with mental health and neurological conditions.
