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. Journaling after brain injury helps written and verbal communication skills and provides cognitive retraining for following instruction. It helps promote self awareness as well as recognition of strengths and difficulties after brain injury. It is a tool for planning for the future and discussions with family members. Journaling can be done individually, in a group or with assistance from caregivers or family.

This workbook is included in the Survivor Tool Kit for Adults with Brain Injury.

Information on risks and consequences of aging after brain injury helps families and caregivers assess needs for help, provide support, and assist with memory, planning and organization at home. The Aging Tool Kit includes 3 books and 40 tip cards with therapeutic activities for adults with traumatic brain injury, stroke, brain tumor, or dementia.

This special collection of books and tip cards on brain injury, blast injury and PTSD is designed for chaplains and counselors helping families cope with the emotional impact of a traumatic injury. Two books help counselors and chaplains understand the effects of concussion, blast injury and brain injury by providing information on common symptoms, treatment and recovery. A supply of tip cards (pamphlets) with practical information and coping strategies on grief and loss, marital relationships, depression and caregiving are included for counselors and chaplains to distribute to families, veterans and survivors.

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 guide is included in the Family and Adult Tool Kit on Traumatic Brain Injury.

This guide is included in the Troops and Veterans Tool Kit on Blast Injury, Traumatic Brain Injury, Concussion and PTSD.

This guide is included in the PTSD Tool Kit for Veterans and Families.

This guide is included in the Chaplain and Counselor Tool Kit on Helping Families after Brain Injury.

Life after brain injury is, more often than not, a tremendous adjustment. This practical, easy-to-read guide addresses day-to-day issues faced by many people with brain injury.

This down-to-earth, illustrated book is backed by years of clinical experience, research findings and most of all, the personal lessons learned and advice given from many individuals living with traumatic brain injury. It is filled with worksheets, checklists, and many practical ideas offered by and for survivors. Recognizing that emotional and physical recovery are two different things, this guide tackles the difficult question of, “How can I live like this?” Topics are organized by 25 Great Ideas and feature frank discussions of the many ways that brain injury changes one’s life and the personal struggles and challenges that survivors face as they follow their journey of personal growth and recovery.

This small bound reference guide contains all the concepts in the larger book, After Brain Injury: Tools for Living. It serves as a reminder system for survivors. Clear pictures and descriptions of key concepts in growth and healing are in the Pocket Guide for reminders of information and strategies. Its 3.5 by 5.5 inch size fits easily into a pocket or purse for easy carrying and regular use.

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.

Providing families with information about brain injury is a major step toward helping them understand the physical, cognitive, behavioral and emotional changes as they rebuild their lives.

Designed especially for families when an adult member has a brain injury, this Tool Kit contains books, manuals, a DVD and tip cards on traumatic brain injury. Case managers, life care planners and attorneys can use this tool kit to…

• Educate families about the consequences of brain injury
• Help prepare families to coordinate and manage care and services,/li>
• Use compensatory strategies and therapeutic activities at home
• Explore the impact of the brain injury on employment

Case managers and life care planners will find this Tool Kit valuable for…

• Guiding families and survivors through the complexities of care and services
• Partnering with families and clients in the management and coordination of care
• Increasing the knowledge and skills of families

This Tool Kit gives families essential information and resources to understand the impact of a trauma upon a child’s developing brain. Manuals and tip cards help families understand the cognitive and behavioral challenges that may result from a brain injury. Since parents become the primary contact with educators, this Tool Kit gives strategies for communicating effectively with educators, negotiating special education services, and becoming effective advocates for their child.

Case managers and life care planners will find this Tool Kit valuable for…

• Guiding families through medical and rehabilitation care after brain injury
• Helping parents prepare and coordinate for their child’s entry or return to school
• Increasing the knowledge and skills to be effective advocates for their child