Group-Based Interventions for Coping with Brain Injury for Families: A Manual and Workbook for Practitioners and Family Caregivers [Hardcover]

This combined manual and workbook allows clinicians to develop and run an Understanding Brain Injury group-based intervention for the families of patients who have suffered moderate to severe brain injury. It will be invaluable to a range of health and social care professionals and trainees working with those with brain injury.

Chapter 1: Why Create this Manual? Chapter 2: Introducing the Group Chapter 3: Session 1  What Is the Understanding Brain Injury Group? Chapter 4: Session 2  Physical Changes After Brain Injury Chapter 5: Session 3  Mental Process Changes After Brain Injury Chapter 6: Session 4  Lifestyle Changes After Brain Injury Appendix 1  Areas of the Brain Appendix 2  Physical Changes Appendix 3  Example Spider Diagram of Physical Changes Appendix 4  Mental Process Changes Appendix 5  Example Spider Diagram of Mental Process Changes Appendix 6  Lifestyle Changes Appendix 7  Example Spider Diagram of Lifestyle Changes Understanding Brain Injury Family Group Workbook

This combined manual and workbook allows clinicians to develop and run an Understanding Brain Injury group-based intervention for the families of patients who have suffered moderate to severe brain injury. This is a specific group-based course useful for family groups with patients who are in hospital or early discharge. Taking an approach based on psycho-education and cognitive behaviour therapy, the manual guides the facilitator through each session, outlining what should be focused on, giving suggestions for talking points, and enabling the group to become a lively, interactive unit in which the members share their own experiences and gain insight and caregiving coping strategies from each other.

The manual is accompanied by a full workbook, available as an appendix and also in downloadable format in an accompanying eResource. After working through the programme, the families of the individual with the brain injulS