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Brain Injury Books on Families

Living with traumatic brain injury, blast injury and concussion

Brain injury affects everyone in the family.  These books on adults and veterans with acquired brain injury or blast injury describe the emotional impact of a traumatic injury on the family. Information is provided to help families cope with hospital and  rehabilitation treatment, prepare for coming home, and rebuilding family life at home and in the community.  Books discuss understanding family dynamics, working through grief and loss, creating strategies for coping, and adjusting to life in the community.

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Explaining Brain Injury, Blast Injury and PTSD to Children and Teens

When a parent is injured, sons and daughters often feel confused, scared, anxious and angry. This guide helps parents explain the physical, cognitive, behavioral, social and communicative changes that can follow a brain injury, blast injury or PTSD. Using examples from children of all ages, it helps them understand their emotional reactions to a parent’s injury or PTSD. Each chapter has an exercise for children and practical tips for children, parents and professionals.
Item: EBIB
Price: $25.00
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Family and Adult Tool Kit on Traumatic Brain Injury

Filled with practical information on difficult questions of...What happens next? How will we go on as a family? What does this mean? How can I help? A great resource for rehabilitation programs, brain injury associations and community agencies…something for everyone in the family. Includes 6 books.

Item: FAMK
Price: $100.00
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Managing Care and Services after Brain Injury: A workbook for families and caregivers

Families become the real “case managers” for services in the community over time, whether is it a son, daughter, parent, sibling, or spouse who has a brain injury. This workbook teaches families how to communicate effectively, set goals and plan for the future, locate and coordinate services, make referrals that get results, advocate for services and funding, and evaluate what’s important.

Every family can use information in this workbook to cut through barriers, find resources, locate services, pull together care plans and build a future.

Item: MCSB
Price: $30.00
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PTSD Tool Kit for Veterans and Families

Special collection of books and tip cards on post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and blast injury helps families and veterans understand symptoms, develop coping strategies, and support their children. Includes 3 books, 12 tip cards.

Item: PTTK
Price: $65.00
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Survivor Tool Kit for Adults with Brain Injury

Information for adult survivors of traumatic brain injury provides books, DVD and tip cards on brain injury recovery. Gives tools and strategies for coping with cognitive, behavioral, emotional, social, and physical changes after acquired brain injury due to stroke, trauma or blast. The Survivor Tool Kit includes practical tools filled with compensatory strategies, checklists for memory, planning and organization, and tips for adjustment and acceptance. Recommended for adult civilians and veterans affected by TBI. Includes 2 books, 1 DVD, and 15 tip cards.

Item: SUTK
Price: $80.00
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Brain Injury It is a Journey

This brain injury book for families explains consequences of traumatic brain injury and gives strategies for coping with changes in the survivor's physical abilities, memory, attention, thinking and emotions.
Item: BIFJ
Price: $20.00
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The Get Well Soon...Balloon!

Story book helps children understand their emotions and reactions when a parent has a brain injury. Describes coma, rehabilitation, coming home, and therapy from a child's perspective. Recommended for families of injured veterans and service members.
Item: BALL
Price: $10.00
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Ketchup on the Baseboard: Rebuilding life after brain injury

Book chronicles her son's brain injury over 20 years from coma care to rehabilitation and living in the community.  Excellent resource with articles on special topics for families on traumatic brain injury advovcay, information and support.
Item: KOTB
Price: $24.00
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A Change of Mind: One Family’s Journey Through Brain Injury

Book on marital stress and adjustment by a family when a spouse has a brain injury. Discusses emotional trauma for family, grieving, mourning, parenting, and caregiving after severe head trauma.
Item: ACHM
Price: $10.00
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Healing Together

Book for couples coping with effects of trauma and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) from war, brain injury, violence, accidents, crime or health problems.
Item: HEAL
Price: $17.00
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