Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury

Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury

Janet P. Niemeier, Ph.D., ABPP and Robert L. Karol, Ph.D., ABPP

Grief is a normal reaction to loss. This practical workbook and manual helps family members, survivors, and clinicians identify the symptoms and phases of recovery from brain injury. It is filled with personal examples, exercises and information that address cognitive, social, behavioral and functional changes. It can be used as a self-help workbook or with a professional.

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This workbook provides information on the symptoms, normal emotional and behavioral changes, and coping skills following a brain injury. It is based on the belief that both the person with a brain injury and the family will benefit from having information about brain injury and the recovery process. It is a comprehensive and informational book about adjustment after brain injury which streseses support systems and coping skills. Written in a clear and sensitive style, the authors guide readers through the complex emotions and grieving process that is part of the emotional trauma of brain injury.

Details
Item OGLA
ISBN# 978-0-19-538895-4
Pages 240 pages; 8-1/2 x 11
Year 2010

Authors

Janet P. Niemeier, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Niemeier is a Board Certified Rehabilitation Psychologist with an additional specialty in neuropsychology. Dr. Niemeier is an Associate Professor of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and Psychiatry and Director of Inpatient Brain Injury Psychology at Virginia Commonwealth University in the School of Medicine in Richmond, Virginia.

Dr. Niemeier has over 20 years experience assessing and treating patients in all phases of recovery from traumatic brain injury. She has held positions in inpatient, outpatient, and community-based settings throughout her clinical rehabilitation career. In addition to her current work with patients on the Brain Injury Unit, and their families, she conducts funded research related to innovative treatment interventions.

Dr. Niemeier is senior or contributing author on multiple articles in peer-reviewed journals including Archives of Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation, Neuropsychological Rehabilitation, Rehabilitation Psychology, Disability and Rehabilitation, and Brain Injury as well as books about early education and rehabilitation following brain injury.

Robert L. Karol, Ph.D., ABPP

Dr. Karol is Board Certified by the American Board of Professional Psychology as a Rehabilitation Psychologist and is certified by the Academy of Certified Brain Injury Specialists (ACBIS) as a Certified Brain Injury Specialist Trainer (CBIST).

Dr. Karol is president of Karol Neuropsychological Services and Consulting, a group private practice in Minneapolis, MN, specializing in the evaluation and care of persons with acquired brain injury. He was the Director of Psychology/Neuropsychology at Bethesda Hospital in St. Paul, MN for twelve years and was Director of Brain Injury Services.

Dr. Karol also co-founded the Brain Injury Association of Minnesota, serving on its Board of Directors for fourteen years and he is a past Chairman of the Board.

Contents

Introduction

Lesson 1 Brain Injury Facts, Realities, and Inspirations

Lesson 2 A New Sense of Self: Lost and Found

Lesson 3 The Rehabilitation Hospital System: Staying Focused/Positive

Lesson 4 Emotional Responses to Brain Injury: Reclaiming Grief

Lesson 5 Anger, Guilt, Denial, and Behavior

Lesson 6 The Rehabilitation Hospital System: Staying Focused/Positive

Lesson 7 Thoughts for People in the Life of Persons with Brain Injury

Lesson 8 Getting Support

Lesson 9 How to Keep on Recovering Well

References

About the author

Index

Excerpts

Introduction

We recognize that you may have had little experience either with hospital rehabilitation or a community-based care system prior to your brain injury. Plus, when you seek help, unaware professionals may refer to your grief in a way that sounds like an illness by using clinical reactions could be normal grief.

In addition, while good work is now underway to find the best ways to address the needs of persons with brain injury, scholars and researchers have a comparatively new interest in acquired brain injury. Still, while there is more known now about rehabilitation of brain injury because of this research and work, many clinicians who wish to meet the emotional needs of people struggling to respond to the losses of this devastating injury lack of knowledge. This in turn leaves people with brain injury at a loss to find their emotional way. Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury was written to address your needs and the needs of your support system so that you can implement the best interventions.

It is meant to be a practical resource. The exercises and information within the nine Lessons will focus you on learning about your responses to your injury. You will be invited to relate each topic to your own injury experience, through questionnaires, exercises, and writing tasks.

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