1st Edition
Severe and Profound Brain Injury A Clinician’s Guide to Complex Neuro-Disability
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
Biography
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.
