1. Introduction and Overview -- 2. Guidelines for Early Psychotherapy Sessions and General Treatment Considerations -- 3. Increasing Patients' Self-Awareness -- 4. Sense of Self and Identity / with Stephen M. Myles -- 5. Increasing Acceptance -- 6. Life Skills Training -- 7. Family Life / with Edward Koberstein -- 8. Communication and Social Skills -- 9. Adjustment and Treatment Termination -- 10. Psychotherapist Self-Care: Managing Stress and Avoiding Burnout.
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"This book presents hands-on tools for addressing the multiple ways that brain injury can affect psychological functioning and well-being. The author is a leader in the field who translates her extensive clinical experience into clear-cut yet flexible guidelines that therapists can adapt for different challenges and settings. With a focus on facilitating awareness, coping, competence, adjustment, and community reintegration, the book features helpful case examples and reproducible handouts and forms. It shows how to weave together individual psychotherapy, cognitive retraining, group and family work, psychoeducation, and life skills training, and how to build and maintain a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Subject Areas/Keywords: adjustment, assessments, clinical neuropsychology, cognition, cognitive retraining, counseling, deficits, disorders, families, family, head injury, impairments, interventions, neurological, patients, psychoeducational, psychosocial, psychotherapy, recovery, rehabilitation, remediation, sports injuries, stress, trauma, traumatic brain injury, treatments Audience: Neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, counselors, and other professionals who work with brain-injured clients and their families"--Provided by publisher.
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Title
Psychotherapy after brain injury.
International Standard Book Number
9781606238615
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Brain-- Wounds and injuries-- Patients-- Mental health services.
Brain-- Wounds and injuries-- Patients-- Rehabilitation.
Psychotherapy.
Brain Injuries-- psychology.
Brain Injuries-- rehabilitation.
Psychotherapy-- methods.
Brain-- Wounds and injuries-- Patients-- Rehabilitation.