Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury

Therapists' Guide to Overcoming Grief and Loss After Brain Injury

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

The Therapists' Guide is written as a neurobehavioral and cognitive intervention manual for clinicians who counsel persons with brain injury. It provides step-by-step protocols, using the content of the patient workbook Overcoming Grief and Loss after Brain Injury.
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Each of the 9 Lessons can be used as a basis for therapy appointments with consumers. Most mental health clinicians do not fully understand the special learning needs of this client population or how to modify the usual psychotherapy or counseling process to accommodate their unique impairments and allow them to benefit. The Therapist's Guide provides the structure, grounded in the current brain injury literature that allows the clinician to teach and guide the client effectively.

Features

  • Integrates and provides up-to-date information about brain injury symptoms and evidence-based neurobehavioral and cognitive interventions
  • Provides comprehensive, multifocal guidance in helping others cope with and compensate for a wide range of common post-injury challenges
  • Written for both consumers as a practical guide and for clinicians
Details
Item OGLT
ISBN# 978-0-19-538896-1
Pages 208 pages Paperback
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

Lesson 7 Thoughts for People in the Lives of Those with Brain Injury

Overview

This lesson is written to help you address the concerns of the people in the lives of those with brain injury . The exercises are designed for people who have a relationship to person with brain injury. The intent of the lesson is to help people other than persons with brain injury, per se.

If you are working with persons with brain injury who have read the corresponding Lessons in their books, they may find it difficult to read about the stresses and frustrations those significant to them encounter. You might want to discuss with the person with injury that this Lesson is very direct about the needs and issues those around them face. Hopefully, if they read this Lesson it will open a sincere dialog with those significant to them

This Lesson is written for you to act as guide to this material. Still, it recognizes that often there is a team of professionals involved in providing care and therefore, at times, this lesson also suggests that people talk with other professionals involved in providing care.

Rationale

  1. People who know the persons with brain injury are often deeply affected by the injury
  2. Too often, little attention is paid to the struggles of spouses, partners, parents of adult children with brain injuries, parents of young children with brain injuries, adult children of parents with brain injuries, friends, and employers.
  3. Most of these people have no preparation or information before onset about brain injuries and how to respond.
  4. They are searching for models of how to handle the life disruption that brain injury entails
  5. They are likely struggling with their own emotional responses to brain injury. The injuries may well have altered their own lives and, yet, they feel guilty about raising such concerns
  6. There is likely hesitancy on their part to ask for help and they may be embarrassed by their need for help
  7. In some cases, despite strong emotional ties to persons with brain injuries, the health care system may dissuade them from being involved with implicit, if not explicit, messages about their involvement.

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