Brainlash: Maximize Your Recovery From Mild Brain Injury

by Gail L. Denton PhD

Overview

Mild traumatic brain injury can happen to anyone, anytime in cars, sports, or workplace accidents, falls, or through physical assault, including domestic violence and shaken-baby syndrome. The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control estimates that 1.4 million Americans sustain a traumatic brain injury (TBI) each year, and that at least 5.3 million Americans currently have long-term or lifelong need for help to perform activities of daily living as a result of a TBI.

Brainlash provides the tools and facts to make the recovery process more intelligible— and to support the wide range of people affected by MTBI. For patients, family members, physicians and other health care providers, attorneys, health insurance companies, employers and others, it covers options and services, health and vocational issues, medicolegal topics, psychological and emotional implications, and more!

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781932603408
Publisher:	Springer Publishing Company
Publication date:	01/02/2008
Edition description:	3rd ed.
Pages:	360
Sales rank:	479,307
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Gail L. Denton, PhD, is both a psychotherapist and a brain injury survivor.

Table of Contents

"Introduction
Questionnaire
Case Studies
Lifestyle Changes and Challenges
For Family Members
Support Systems
Work
Driving
Play
Sex
Re-Entry. Executive Function
Attention Span and Overwhelm
Talking and Thinking
Sequencing
Stamina, Fatigue, and Energy
Risk and Initiation
Inhibitions and Appropriateness
New Abilities and New Skills
Retrain Your Brain
Remembering What You Know
Humor
Power Nap
A Good Brain Day
Journaling. Physical Issues
Vision
Pain
Relapse
Medical Therapies
Nutrition. Emotions and Denial
Depression
But What If . . . Ideations
Anger and Forgiveness
Self-Esteem
Deja Vu
Resources"

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Elliot J Roth, MD (Shirley Ryan AbilityLab)
Description: This book is written for people with brain injury by someone who has been through it. It provides personal insights, useful information, and practical suggestions for people with brain injuries and their families.
Purpose: The intent is to provide persons with brain injury "an articulate interpretation of their experiences," and for the author to share the knowledge and insights that she gained during her recovery from brain injury. She offers the book "as a way of understanding the depth and breadth of the road ahead for everyone involved in the process of recovery."
Audience: This book is specifically directed at persons with brain injury and their families. As a survivor of a brain injury, the author provides valuable insights.
Features: The author addresses the many personal, family, social, and lifestyle issues that arise after brain injury, cognitive functioning, emotional responses, and some of the more technical medical issues. The most useful sections of the book are the personal insights and suggestions for how to deal with seemingly minor (but often important and impactful) situations that arise in day-to-day activities. These sections are the strongest. Medical issues are handled adequately, but not as well as the social and practical daily activities.
Assessment: Several books have been written by persons with brain injury about their experiences dealing with it. This one does a good job of providing personal insights in an accessible, understandable, and practical way.

Doody's Review Service

"As a survivor of a brain injury, the author provides valuable insightsÇ does a good job of providing personal insights in an accessible, understandable, and practical way." - Elliot J Roth, MD, (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)

"... Brainlash will prove invaluable for employers, support groups, health care providers, and legal representatives to better understand mild traumatic brain injury and recovery options."--Midwest Book Review

"This comprehensive guide complements medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Its down-to-earth, practical advice covers virtually every aspect of the recovery process... Brainlash provides the tools and facts to make the recovery process more intelligible and to support the wide range of people affected by mild traumatic brain injury."--American Rehabilitation

"Techniques used by Denton to help her in her own recovery are amazing and should be considered by others going through similar situations... Any person involved in any aspect of brain injury would do great benefit to themselves by reading this important book."-- From the Foreword by James S. Brady

From the Foreword by James S. Brady

"As a survivor of a brain injury, the author provides valuable insights' does a good job of providing personal insights in an accessible, understandable, and practical way." - Elliot J Roth, MD, (Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)"... Brainlash will prove invaluable for employers, support groups, health care providers, and legal representatives to better understand mild traumatic brain injury and recovery options."—Midwest Book Review"This comprehensive guide complements medical treatment for anyone with mild brain injury. Its down-to-earth, practical advice covers virtually every aspect of the recovery process... Brainlash provides the tools and facts to make the recovery process more intelligible and to support the wide range of people affected by mild traumatic brain injury."—American Rehabilitation"Techniques used by Denton to help her in her own recovery are amazing and should be considered by others going through similar situations... Any person involved in any aspect of brain injury would do great benefit to themselves by reading this important book."— From the Foreword by James S. Brady

James S. Brady

Reviewer: Eliot J Roth, MD(Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago)
Description: This book is written for people with brain injury by someone who has been through it. It provides personal insights, useful information, and practical suggestions for people with brain injuries and their families.
Purpose: The intent is to provide persons with brain injury "an articulate interpretation of their experiences," and for the author to share the knowledge and insights that she gained during her recovery from brain injury. She offers the book "as a way of understanding the depth and breadth of the road ahead for everyone involved in the process of recovery."
Audience: This book is specifically directed at persons with brain injury and their families. As a survivor of a brain injury, the author provides valuable insights.
Features: The author addresses the many personal, family, social, and lifestyle issues that arise after brain injury, cognitive functioning, emotional responses, and some of the more technical medical issues. The most useful sections of the book are the personal insights and suggestions for how to deal with seemingly minor (but often important and impactful) situations that arise in day-to-day activities. These sections are the strongest. Medical issues are handled adequately, but not as well as the social and practical daily activities.
Assessment: Several books have been written by persons with brain injury about their experiences dealing with it. This one does a good job of providing personal insights in an accessible, understandable, and practical way.

★ 10/01/2013
Leads survivors through the sometimes overwhelming aspects of rebuilding their life following a brain injury. Indispensable.

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