Brain Injury recovery and information tip card packets
Special collections of tip cards on brain injury and concussion in adults have strategies and information on traumatic brain injury or TBI diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and recovery. They are written for families, educators, rehabilitation providers, therapists, nurses, clinicians and advocates.
Sample packet of tip cards on brain injury in adults covers helping families, concussion, trauma, medication, communication, behavior, social skills, substance abuse, sexuality, community integration, college and working.
A special collection of 6 tip cards on brain injury addresses consequences and treatment of trauma to the brain. It provides information for families, caregivers, veterans and clinicians on various types of acquired brain injury. Common concerns and questions about coma recovery, seizures, headaches, and medications after brain injury are discussed in user-friendly language.
This informative collection of 6 cards with tips for families helps them understand their reactions and cope with emotions after a spouse, parent, son or daughter has a brain injury. Families have many conflicting and intense feelings when a family member is injured. These cards have tips with information on coping during early stages of recovery, hospital care, rehabilitation, and going home.
Special set of 5 tip cards has information for family and caregivers of a person with brain injury. Families have physical, social, financial and emotional challenges as caregivers of adults or veterans with brain injury. These tip cards have information on managing the stress of caregiving with strategies for coping.
A brain injury can cause changes in cognition with altered executive skills such as reasoning, problem solving, and judgment. This collection of 6 tip cards discusses compensatory strategies, changes in self awareness, memory strategies, avoiding fatigue and overload, and sensory hypersensitivities.
This collection of 6 tip cards has information on behavioral changes and challenges in adults and veterans with brain injuries, and offers strategies for coping and treatment. Topics include understanding causes of behavior, how to respond to behavioral challenges, behavioral strategies for caregivers and families, and supporting positive behaviors.
This collection of 6 tip cards has information on emotions and the psychological impact of brain trauma. Helps families, survivors, service members and clinicians understand their changing and conflicting emotions after a spouse, parent, sibling, son or daughter has a traumatic brain injury. Discusses hope, loss and grief, irritability and anger, depression, stress and anxiety, and finding support.
This collection of 10 tip cards has information on brain injury with tips on rebuilding lives and coping with challenges that service members and adult survivors face living in the community. Topics include independence, irritability and anger, journaling, sleep disorders, adjustment, fatigue and overload, substance abuse, dating, and aging.
Packet of 6 tip cards addresses effects of concussion, blast injury, PTSD and sleep disorders among service members and veterans as well as civilians. It also covers the warning signs of increased risk for suicide in military personnel and strategies for suicide prevention. These tip cards help families, caregivers and providers understand the causes and symptoms of PTSD, concussion, headaches, sleep disorders and suicide and provides coping strategies.
This collection of 6 tip cards discusses the many challenges in the community that adult and veteran survivors face after a brain injury from trauma or blast explosion. Physical, cognitive, behavioral and emotional changes after a brain injury can make it difficult for many adults and veterans to become independent, be employed, or return to school.