Head Injury Information on Family Issues

This workbook guides survivors of brain injury and blast injury through the powerful healing experience of telling their own stories with simple journaling techniques. By writing short journal entries, survivors explore the challenges, losses, changes, emotions, adjustments, stresses, and milestones as they rebuild their lives. By Barbara Stahura and Susan Schuster.

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.

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.

Brain injury concussion books, manuals, tip cards and rehabilitation activities for adults with traumatic brain injury, families, and caregivers. Information on attention, learning, communication, cognition, behavior, and adjustment after head injury.

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.

Blast injury, PTSD and brain injury guide for families and caregivers on the consequences of concussion in veterans. Used by many VA Hospitals and Army Medical Facilities.

This TBI booklet for families is based on experiences and suggestions of families with children who have brain, spinal cord or other traumatic injuries. It discusses the emotional impact of a child’s injury on all family members.

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.

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.