Full Description
The Chaplain and Counselor Tool Kit on Helping Families after Brain Injury includes 2 books and 60 tip cards including…
Understanding the Effects of Concussion, Blast and Brain Injuries: A guide for families, veterans, service members and caregivers - Covers symptoms, treatment and recovery from hospital care to coming home and returning to work.
Explaining Brain Injury, Blast Injury and PTSD to Children and Teens: A guidebook for families, caregivers and veterans - Teaches parents how to help sons and daughters cope and help when a parent is injured or has PTSD.
Brain Injury: How to recognize and treat it - Describes treatment of: traumatic brain injury, anoxia (hypoxia), stroke or cardiovascular accidents (CVA), aneurysm, toxemia, viruses and bacterial infections in the brain (10 cards).
Loss, Grief and Mourning after Brain Injury – Helps family members and survivors understand emotional impact of trauma (10 cards).
Life Changes: When a spouse or partner has a brain injury - Discusses impact of brain injury on family and changes in parenting, intimacy, and caregiving (10 cards).
Helping Sons and Daughters: When a parent has a brain injury - Explains grieving process of children and how it varies by from preschoolers to adult children (10 cards).
Depression after Brain Injury - Recognize signs of depression and know when and how to ask for help for family and survivors (10 cards).
Caregiving after Brain Injury: A survival guide – Describes emotional and physical stresses for caregivers with tips on avoiding burnout (10 cards).
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CCTK |
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Full Kit includes 2 books, 60 tip cards |
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2010 |
Authors
This collection of materials is by experts in the field of traumatic brain injury including:
Janelle Breese Biagioni
An author, international speaker and long-standing advocate for families and survivors of brain injury, Janelle Breese Biagioni knows first hand the stress and challenges of trying to be a parent to two children while simultaneously being a wife and primary caregiver to a husband with significant cognitive, behavioral and emotional challenges following a traumatic brain injury. Her personal experience led her to earn a Certificate in Death and Grief Studies at the Center for Loss and Life Transition in conjunction with Colorado State University. She speaks and writes frequently on bereavement and coping strategies for families affected by catastrophic injury with workshops and presentations on grief and loss at conferences and on television and radio.
Flora Hammond, M.D.
She Chairs the Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Indiana University School of Medicine. Previously she was the Research Director and Brain Injury Program Director at Carolinas Rehabilitation in Charlotte, NC where she was Principal Investigator and Project Director of the Carolinas Traumatic Brain Injury Model System. Much of her research on traumatic brain injury has focused on outcome prediction, post-traumatic irritability, depression, relationships, and motor and cognitive recovery over time.
Tonya Hellard
As Office Manager and Copy Editor at Lash and Associates, Ms. Hellard has extensive experience in manuscript preparation. Because of her frequent phone contacts with veterans’ programs and the military in our customer service department, she has been particularly helpful in researching and identifying issues on parenting and the effects of PTSD.
Harvey E. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Dr. Jacobs has special expertise in behavioral rehabilitation for individuals with neurological, psychiatric, medical and developmental disorders. He is a national leader and expert in the treatment of behavior disorders following brain injury. His innovative programs have addressed community integration, social support networks, vocational rehabilitation, behavioral rehabilitation, and psychiatric rehabilitation. Dr. Jacobs is a Vice President of Lash and Associates Publishing/Training, Inc. and a leading author on behavioral issues after traumatic brain injury.
Marilyn Lash, M.S.W.
She is a Founding Partner at Lash and Associates Publishing/Training, Inc. in Wake Forest, NC. Author of many publications on the psychosocial impact of brain injury, her writing and training emphasize coping strategies for families and practical interventions by professionals and educators in hospitals, rehabilitation, schools and community programs. Ms. Lash is on various national task forces on brain injury and editorial boards of rehabilitation journals. She is the Past Chair of the Brain Injury Association of North Carolina and current Chair of the North Carolina Statewide Advisory Council on Traumatic Brain Injury.
Pamela Law, Ph.D.
As a psychotherapist and speech language pathologist in private practice in the Denver area of Colorado, Dr. Law has worked in brain injury rehabilitation since 1992. She holds master’s degrees in speech-language pathology and psychology and a doctorate in psychology. Her clinical interests are in grief and loss and cognitive rehabilitation therapy after brain injury.
Carolyn Rocchio
As a spokesperson for families of survivors of brain injury and founder and past President of the Brain Injury Association of Florida, Carolyn Rocchio is internationally recognized for her compassion and expertise. Ms. Rocchio has written many articles for families and professionals on the consequences of brain injury and finding meaning in life after brain injury. Her list of achievements, honors and publications is lengthy. She is the voice of a mother who knows first hand about the compassion, endurance, hope and determination needed to move forward after brain injury.
