25 Great Ideas for Living Better after Brain Injury

New series available now!

Developed by Dr. Jeff Kreutzer and Dr. Stephanie Kolakowsky-Hayner at the National Resource Center for Traumatic Brain Injury, this series of 3 workbooks voices the many thoughts, feelings, and reactions that survivors, families and caregivers experience but too often do not talk about after brain injury.

Filled with candid discussions, personal insights, and  revelations, both the positive and negative aspects and experiences of survivors and families reveal and explore the complexity and challenges of living a fulfilling life after brain injury. 

The three areas addressed in the series are:

• rebuilding life after brain injury
• living with caregiving
• and exploring work after brain injury

Written in large print with lots of checklists, worksheets, and questionnaires, users will find these workbooks uniquely reflect the real life experiences of the many survivors, caregivers and families who helped develop their content.  There are also plenty of useful strategies, tips, and suggestions that survivors, families and caregivers can readily use to address the many challenges of living a full life.
 
With each workbook organized by 25 great ideas, you will find them a real treasure of information and tools for, as the titles say, living smarter and happier after brain injury.  The workbooks are:

Getting Better and Better after Brain Injury: A guide for survivors for living smarter and happier

This innovative guide provides a framework to help survivors understand recovery, feel better, accomplish more, and improve relationships. Getting better is a skill. Like most skills, improvement comes with practice and hard work.

Getting Better and Better after Brain Injury: A guide for families, friends and caregivers for living smarter and happier

This down-to-earth guide is packed with practical ideas to help those who want to help — family members, friends, and others — but are not sure how.  Taking a frank and pragmatic approach to the stresses, challenges and rewards of caregiving for family and relationships with friends, it is filled with practical suggestions and real life experiences with techniques and coping strategies that caregivers, friends and families have found effective.

Brain Injury Work Book: A guide for living and working productively

With candid discussions of the pros and cons of working after brain injury and the attitudes and barriers of employers, this workbook helps survivors and families sort through the options of going back to the same job, finding a new job, or not going back to work.