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| Contributors | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgements | |
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| Brain-injury rehabilitation: from theory to practice | |
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| Severity of brain injury | |
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| Family and social consequences of brain injury | |
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| Theories of recovery after brain injury | |
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| Restitution | |
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| Substitution | |
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| Is rehabilitation effective? | |
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| Cognitive rehabilitation models | |
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| Models of therapy | |
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| A functional behavioural-learning approach to brain-injury rehabilitation | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Summary | |
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| Medical considerations in brain-injury rehabilitation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Mechanisms of injury | |
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| What goes wrong? | |
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| Natural history of recovery | |
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| Mechanisms of recovery | |
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| Organization of services | |
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| General principles of management | |
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| Medical assessment | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The pharmacotherapeutic management of behavioural and emotional disturbances following brain injury | |
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| Behavioural syndromes | |
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| Strategies for intervention | |
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| The practice of behavioural treatment in the acute rehabilitation setting | |
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| Acute rehabilitation | |
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| Initial assessment and philosophy | |
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| Specialized management of behaviours related to medical complications | |
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| Cognitive impairments | |
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| Types of problem | |
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| Behaviour-management approaches | |
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| Interventions | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Management of behavioural disregulation and non-compliance in the post-acute severely brain-injured adult | |
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| Types of behaviour disorder | |
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| Basic principles of learning theory | |
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| Behavioural interventions | |
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| Applications of learning principles to behavioural change | |
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| Summary | |
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| Functional skills training following severe brain injury | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Retraining methods | |
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| Antecedent control | |
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| Engaging the patient in therapeutic activities | |
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| Elimination of unwanted behaviours | |
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| Skill building | |
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| Assessment and training in specific areas | |
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| Outcome studies | |
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| Motor learning following brain injury | |
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| Motor control | |
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| Components of a motor control model and related dysfunctions | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Motor learning principles | |
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| Factors affecting performance and learning | |
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| Rehabilitation of physical deficits in the post-acute brain-injured adult: four case studies | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Case studies | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Treating cognitive/language and oral motor dysfunction in the brain-injured adult | |
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| Evaluation of the minimally responsive patient | |
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| Coma | |
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| Formal rating and assessment systems | |
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| Acute evaluation and treatment | |
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| Treatment principles and methods | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Lack of insight following severe brain injury | |
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| Definition of terms | |
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| The nature of self-awareness | |
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| Dynamic theories of denial | |
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| Metacognition | |
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| Cognitive behavioural models of self-awareness | |
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| Stress and coping | |
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| Denial in neurological illness | |
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| The neuropsychological account of lack of insight | |
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| The psychological account of lack of insight | |
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| Assessment | |
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| Treatment | |
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| Summary and conclusions | |
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| Vocation and occupation | |
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| Factors influencing work entry or re-entry after brain injury | |
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| Approaches to facilitate work entry | |
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| Occupational activities and leisure time | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Problems in implementing an integrated programme for brain-injury rehabilitation | |
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| The rehabilitation team | |
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| The problem of role definition | |
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| Functional behaviour management: a user's guide | |
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| Functional assessment | |
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| Specific techniques in functional behaviour management | |
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| Why behavioural management may fail | |
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| A note on working with the families of brain-injured people | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The social and emotional consequences of severe brain injury: a social work perspective | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Family needs in the acute stage of recovery | |
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| The social work role | |
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| Counselling | |
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| The experience of readjustment - some family profiles | |
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| The family and the rehabilitation team | |
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| The social worker and the rehabilitation team | |
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| Planning for future needs | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Community reintegration after brain injury | |
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| Background | |
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| What is community reintegration? | |
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| Community reintegration - how to do it? | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| Future directions in brain-injury rehabilitation | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Developments in rehabilitation | |
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| The structure of service provision | |
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| References | |
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| Index | |