Head Injury Recovery in Real Life - Softcover

Schutz, Larry E; Schutze, Michael

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1597563781 ISBN 13: 9781597563789

Verlag: Plural Publishing - IPSUK, 2009

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Head Injury Recovery in Real Life combines a thorough review of scientific and clinical background information about recovery from traumatic brain injury with a set of autobiographical accounts of 12 of the 18 best long-term recoveries from a population of 1800 discharged patients at an advanced cognitive rehabilitation program. The chapters describe what these patients had to overcome and how they did so. The recoveries are remarkable for the seriousness of the brain damage and the sustained demonstration of advanced executive and cognitive skills shown during the recovery. Brief sketches of 15 unsuccessful recoveries are also included to provide a counterpoint. Long-term recovery is poorly understood by stakeholders of all kinds, including researchers, medical practitioners, family members, and survivors. A rich understanding of successful recoveries helps members of each of these groups to more effectively examine or achieve recovery, while providing vivid and cogent guidance for students in the rehabilitation professions speech-language pathology, occupational therapy, physical therapy, psychology, rehabilitation counseling, nursing, and physical medicine and rehabilitation.

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Larry Schutz, Ph.D., ABPP Larry E. Schutz, Ph.D., has conducted and supervised head injury rehabilitation for 29 years, treating over 5,000 clients. He is currently the neuropsychologist of the Transitional Living Center at Casa Colina Hospital in Southern California, one of the largest neurorehabilitation programs in the world. Previously he designed 11 head injury programs in New Jersey and Florida. He was awarded the first full-time, APA-approved neuropsychological internship in neurorehabilitation at the Palo Alto VA Medical Center and completed advanced study with Yigal Gross, Ph.D., one of the pioneers of the field. Dr. Schutz's areas of publication include neuropsychological assessment methods, rehabilitation research methods, therapy techniques, theories of treatment, and rehabilitation outcomes. He is one of a handful of neuropsychologists who have been awarded the diplomate in rehabilitation of the American Board of Professional Psychology and selected as a fellow of the National Academy of Neuropsychology. Dr. Schutz is also the founder and chair of the board of directors of GiveBack, Inc., a non-profit organization providing free recovery assistance to survivors. Michael Schutz Michael Schutz graduated from the prestigious School of Journalism at the University of Florida. He is currently studying computer science at the University of Central Florida. His involvement with traumatic brain injury began when he founded and edited The BIRC Times, a newsletter for inpatients with head injuries. He currently serves as the webmaster of GiveBack, Inc., a non-profit organization providing free recovery assistance to survivors of traumatic brain injury.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Plural Publishing - IPSUK
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2009
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1597563781
• ISBN 13: 9781597563789
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 333
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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