Handbook of Head Trauma (eBook, PDF)

Acute Care to Recovery
Redaktion: Long, Charles J.; Ross, Leslie K.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Providing a thorough collection of information regarding clinical aspects of head injury from acute care to recovery, this treatise interrelates a variety of neural specialties and broadens the rehabilitation process to include the family.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer US
• Seitenzahl: 442
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781489907066
• Artikelnr.: 43989666

Inhaltsangabe

I. Background Issues of Head Injury.- 1 Management and Evaluation of Head Trauma.- 2 Initial Management of Head Trauma.- II. Neuropsychological Assessment of Head-Injured Individuals.- 3 Use of History in Neuropsychological Assessments.- 4 Neuropsychological Assessment of Patients with Epilepsy.- 5 Neuropathology and Neuropsychology of Behavioral Disturbances following Traumatic Brain Injury.- 6 Using a Model of Cognitive Function to Plan Cognitive Treatment: An Axial Model of Brain Function.- 7 Cognitive Sequelae in Closed Head Injury.- III. Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.- 8 Acute Rehabilitation of the Head-Injured Individual: Toward a Neuropsychological Paradigm of Treatment.- 9 The Use of Pharmacology in the Treatment of Head-Injured Patients.- 10 Cognitive Rehabilitation after Head Trauma: Toward an Integrated Cognitive/Behavioral Perspective on Intervention.- 11 Memory Rehabilitation.- 12 The Efficacy of Attention-Remediation Programs for Traumatically Brain-Injured Survivors.- 13 The Executive Board System: An Innovative Approach to Cognitive-Behavioral Rehabilitation in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury.- 14 Computer-Assisted Cognitive Remediation of Attention Disorders following Mild Closed Head Injuries.- IV. Outcome Prediction following Head Injury.- 15 Recovery from Head Trauma: A Curvilinear Process?.- 16 Neuropsychological Assessment of Traumatic Brain Injury in the Intensive Care and Acute Care Environment.- 17 Traumatic Brain Injury: Outcome and Predictors of Outcome.- V. Individual Therapy and Family Issues in Rehabilitation.- 18 Group Psychotherapy with Brain-Damaged Adults and Their Families.- 19 Family Involvement in Cognitive Recovery following Traumatic Brain Injury.- 20 Closed Head Injury and Family Structure: Factors Contributing to Dysfunctional Dynamics.- VI. Vocational Evaluation and Job-Oriented Rehabilitation.- 21 Vocational Evaluation and Planning.- 22 Job-Oriented Rehabilitation.- 23 Neurological Impairment and Driving Ability.- 24 Forensic Issues in Head Trauma: Neuropsychological Perspectives of Social Security Disability and Worker's Compensation.