New book includes personal accounts of people who have survived brain injury

Leading neuropsychological experts, Barbara A. Wilson, Jill Winegardner and Fiona Ashworth, bring you Life After Brain Injury: Survivors' Stories, the first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of people who have survived injury to the brain, with specialist discussion.

• The first book of its kind to include the personal accounts of brain injury survivors with expert discussion
• Practical approaches to help brain injury survivors achieve meaningful goals
• Essential for clinical psychologists and neuropsychologists
• Also ideal for survivors of brain injury, their family and friends.

"This unique and fascinating book portrays rehabilitation at its best: as a partnership between the therapist and the participant. It embodies and illustrates the mutual respect, empathy and goal orientation that characterises an effective therapeutic alliance. Reading this book should give both new and seasoned therapists a clear sense of what therapeutic engagement really means, and individuals with brain injury renewed hope that life can continue to improve after brain injury." - James F. Malec, Indiana University, USA

"This book provides a rare opportunity to hear the voices of individuals with brain injury as they describe the lows and highs of their personal journeys from injury through rehabilitation. The reader learns about a variety of individualised therapeutic approaches to the problems experienced by people with brain injuries. It highlights the importance of a collaborative approach to rehabilitation." - Jennie Ponsford, Monash University, Australia 

Wilson, Winegardner and Ashworth's focus on the survivors' perspective shows how rehabilitation is an interactive process between people with brain injury, health care staff, and others, and gives the survivors the chance to tell their own stories of life before their injury, the nature of the insult, their early treatment, and subsequent rehabilitation. 

The paintings and stories of survivors combine with experts' discussions of the theory and practice of brain injury rehabilitation to illustrate the ups and downs that survivors encounter in their journey from pre-injury status to insult and post-injury rehabilitation.

Presenting practical approaches to help survivors of brain injury achieve functionally relevant and meaningful goals, Life After Brain Injury: Survivors' Stories will help all those working in rehabilitation understand the principles involved in holistic brain injury rehabilitation and how these principles, combined with theory and models, translate into clinical practice.

This book will be of great interest to anyone who wishes to extend their knowledge of the latest theories and practices involved in making life more manageable for people who have suffered damage to the brain.