This workbook helps individuals and families understand the effects of mild brain injury. It is filled with exercises to help people deal with the cognitive effects as well as the psychological and emotional difficulties that can accompany changes in memory, attention and communication after brain injury.

  There is an easy to understand overview of mild traumatic brain injury and description of symptoms and post concussion syndrome. The reader is given checklists and forms to record symptoms and set goals. Clear explanations guide the reader through the anatomy of the brain and what happens to the brain after a mild brain injury.

  There are specific chapters on physical aspects, the senses, attention, memory, cognitive communication, visuospatial processing, depression, and anxiety.

  The author provides overviews of clinical information in user-friendly language for readers on each topic. Every chapter has multiple exercises for the reader to apply this information and personalize it.