Therapist's guide to overcoming grief and loss after brain injury

Therapist's guide to overcoming grief & loss after brain injury

Companion volume to: Overcoming grief and loss after brain injury / Janet P. Niemeier, Robert L. Karol. 2011.

Brain injury facts, realities, and inspirations -- A new sense of self: lost and found -- The rehabilitation hospital system: staying focused and positive -- Emotional responses to brain injury: reclaiming grief -- Anger, guilt, denial, and behavior -- Copying: how to maintain a healthy outlook -- Thoughts for people in the lives of those with brain injury -- Getting support -- How to keep on recovering well.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury is written as a neurobehavioral and cognitive intervention manual for clinicians who counsel persons with brain injury. The Therapist's Guide provides step-by-step protocols, using the content of the patient workbook Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury. Each of the 9 Lessons can be used as a basis for therapy appointments with consumers. Most mental health clinicians do not fully understand the special learning needs of this client population or how to modify the usual psychotherapy or counseling process to accommodate their unique impairments and allow them to benefit. The Therapists' Guide provides the structure, grounded in the current brain injury literature that allows the clinician to teach and guide the client effectively.