by Trevor Powell & Kit Malia
Contains over 140 cognitive rehabilitation exercises - tailored for memory, thinking skills, executive functions, awareness and insight, and emotional adjustment.
Full Description:
Highly Commended in Medical Book for the General Reader category of The Society of Authors & The Royal Society of Medicine Book Awards 2004
Evolved from working with head injured groups at Headway and those attempting to return to work, this is a rich, comprehensive and photocopiable workbook for professionals, carers and clients.
Contains over 140 cognitive rehabilitation exercises - tailored for memory, thinking skills, executive functions, awareness and insight, and emotional adjustment.
Provides more than 40 information sheets on key problem areas, with questions for the reader, designed to educate and stimulate thinking and discussion.
Suitable for both individuals and groups.
Includes questionnaires for clients to complete with or without help and quizzes to evaluate and encourage information retention.
Primarily for professionals where exercises or handout sheets can be photocopied and used therapeutically, The Brain Injury Workbook can also be used by carers or family members to provide stimulating activities for a head-injured person. In addition, the head-injured person themselves can work through the book on their own. "Excellent for moderate to high level clients and in particular very good for those trying to return to work or responsibilities…Applicable to moderate/high level strokes as well as traumatic head injury." - Pat Brindley, Speech & Language TherapistContents
Education about brain injury; Memory; Thinking skills; Executive skills; Awareness skills; Adjustment skills.
Readership
All professionals working with brain injury (occupational therapists, speech & language therapists, nurses, psychologists), carers and family members, head injured people themselves
About the authors
Trevor Powell is a consultant clinical psychologist who has worked in the field of brain injury rehabilitation and adult mental health for the past 20 years. Other titles by Dr Powell include The Mental Health Handbook and Head Injury: A Practical Guide. Kit Malia is a Cognitive Rehabilitation Therapist, who has worked with brain injured people for the last 15 years and author of the Brain Wave Cognitive Rehabilitation package.
256pp, wire-o-bound
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