Highly practical and comprehensive, this book provides a multimodal framework for helping patients with acquired brain injuries to identify and achieve meaningful functional goals in the home and community. In a convenient large-size format, the volume features rich case examples and interdisciplinary tools and strategies. Post-acute cognitive, physical, communication, emotional, vocational, interpersonal, family, and quality-of-life domains are all addressed, using state-of-the-art restorative and compensatory approaches. Coverage includes both individual and group therapies. Fifty reproducible forms and handouts can be photocopied from the book or downloaded from the companion website. The website also features a supplemental chapter on efficacy and outcomes research in neurorehabilitation, appendices with helpful resources, color versions of selected figures, and more.
I. Introduction to Neurorehabilitation
1. The Evolution of Fundamental Concepts of Post-Acute Neurorehabilitation: Historical and Current Considerations
2. How to Construct Quality Neurorehabilitation in the Hospital and Community Settings, with Christopher St. Clair, Robert Spetzler, & Thomas Bour
II. Clinical Approaches and Techniques
3. Techniques to Address Cognitive Skills, with Heather Caples
4. Techniques to Address Communication Pragmatic Skills and Emotions, with Erika Ehlert & Padmaja Bollam
5. Treatment Groups for Functional Skills, with Jennifer Hunsaker, Patricia Briody, & Erika Ehlert
6. Technological Advances in Post-Acute Neurorehabilitation, with Maura Eileen Rhodes & Samuel Schaffer
III. Transfer of Skills
7. Transfer of Skills to the Home, Community, and Work, with Heather Caples, Lori Lindman, Maura Eileen Rhodes, Jennifer Hunsaker, & Erika Ehlert
8. Post-Acute Neurorehabilitation for Socialization, Quality of Life, and School Re-Entry, with Alicia Blank, Meghan Grange, & Amy Helmuth
9. Holistic Interventions for Families and Tiers of Support and Aftercare, with Edward Koberstein & Sarah Rajda
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