Full Description
Neurobehavioural disability (NBD) follows many forms of serious brain injury and is a major constraint on social independence. This book brings together a group of leading academics and practising clinicians to provide an overview of the nature of NBD, considering how it translates into social handicap, and what can be done to address associated problems, through social and behavioural rehabilitation, vocational training and family education.
This fully revised edition takes into account advances in the field, exploring the range of cognitive, emotional, and behavioural effects of brain damage most commonly associated with damage to the frontal and associated structures of the brain that govern social behaviour. This edition also features increased emphasis on psychological interventions, as well as new chapters on brain imaging, pharmacotherapy and assistive technology for disability.
Neurobehavioural Disability and Social Handicap Following Traumatic Brain Injury is essential reading for clinical psychologists, psychiatrists and neurologists working in brain injury rehabilitation. The book will also be of interest to relatives of those with brain injury seeking better knowledge to understand neurobehavioural disability, as well as the growing number of therapy care assistants, case managers, support workers, and social workers responsible for the day to day care of brain injured people in the community.
Contents
Part I Nature and impact
1 Neurobehavioural disability over the past four decades
Andrew Worthington, Rodger Ll. Wood, Tom M. McMillan
2 Neurobehavioural rehabilitation: a developing paradigm
Andrew Worthington and Nick Alderman
3 Disorders of emotion recognition and expression
Claire Williams and Rodger Ll. Wood
4 Disorders of impulse control after TBI
Rodger Ll. Wood
5 Neurobehavioural disability and the Criminal Justice System
Tom M. McMillan and Huw Williams
6 Neurobehavioural disorders and the family
Jeff Kreutzer, Caron Gan and Jennifer H. Marwitz
Part II Assessment methodologies
7 Problems assessing executive dysfunction in neurobehavioural disability
Rodger Ll. Wood and Erin Bigler
8 Neuroimaging in the evaluation of neurobehavioural disability and social handicap following traumatic brain injury
Erin Bigler
Part III Treatment and rehabilitation
9 Executive impairments
Jon Evans
10 Challenging behaviour
Nick Alderman
11 Interventions for adjustment, impaired self-awareness and empathy
Hamish McLeod, Fiona Ashworth and Tom M. McMillan
12 Anxiety and depression following TBI
Jennie Ponsford
13 Fatigue and sleep disturbance following TBI
Jennie Ponsford
14 Psychodynamic psychotherapy after severe traumatic brain injury
George P. Prigatano and Christian E. Salas
15 Pharmacological therapy for neurobehavioural disability
Richard Greenwood and Simon Fleminger
16 Assistive technology, disability and rehabilitation
Brian O'Neill and Alex Gillespie
Part IV Service delivery and development
17 Service provision for neurobehavioural rehabilitation: effectiveness and cost-effectiveness
Sara Ramos, Michael Oddy and Tom M. McMillan
18 Looking forward
Tom M. McMillan, Jennie Ponsford and Breda Cullen
