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Head Injury Rehabilitation
A Community Team Perspective
Edited by Rosemary Gravell, B Med Sci, MRCSLT, & Roger Johnson, BA, PhD, Dip.Clin.Psych, C.Psychol.



This comprehensive text describes how mild to severe head injuries affect various brain functions and gives OTs, PTs, SLPs, and other rehabilitation specialists practical advice for smoothing their clients’ transition from a medical facility to the community. Readers will learn a team approach for addressing the physical, cognitive, behavioral, communicative, vocational, and psychosocial aspects of rehabilitation, and get helpful strategies for collaborating with families and caregivers.

(Distributed for Whurr Publishers, Ltd., England.)



ORDERING INFO
ISBN 1-86156-274-8
Paperback
340 pages / 6 x 9
2002 / $44.95
Stock# 2748


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Customers outside of the U.S. and Canada should contact Whurr Publishers, Ltd., England, to order this book.

Table of Contents


  1. Introduction
    Julie O’Brien, Pam Nicholson, Roger Johnson, and Rosemary Gravell

  2. Setting the scene
    Kate McGlashan

  3. Physical issues following head injury
    Tabitha Mathers, Kate McGlashan, Kath Vick, and Rosemary Gravell

  4. Cognition
    Justine Fawcett and Roger Johnson

  5. Behaviour problems
    Roger Johnson and Julie O’Brien

  6. Communication
    Rosemary Gravell

  7. Vocational rehabilitation
    David McCleod, Roger Johnson, and Samantha Jones

  8. Psychosocial Issues
    Rosemary Gravell

  9. Families and Carers
    Carol Pratt and Kevin Baldry

  10. Legal issues and driving after head injury
    Oliver Gravell, Susan Freeburn, Warren Collins, and Rosemary Gravell

  11. Conclusions and future trends
    Roger Johnson


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