Psychotherapy After Brain Injury: Principles and Techniques

"This book presents hands-on tools for addressing the multiple ways that brain injury can affect psychological functioning and well-being. The author is a leader in the field who translates her extensive clinical experience into clear-cut yet flexible guidelines that therapists can adapt for different challenges and settings. With a focus on facilitating awareness, coping, competence, adjustment, and community reintegration, the book features helpful case examples and reproducible handouts and forms. It shows how to weave together individual psychotherapy, cognitive retraining, group and family work, psychoeducation, and life skills training, and how to build and maintain a collaborative therapeutic relationship. Subject Areas/Keywords: adjustment, assessments, clinical neuropsychology, cognition, cognitive retraining, counseling, deficits, disorders, families, family, head injury, impairments, interventions, neurological, patients, psychoeducational, psychosocial, psychotherapy, recovery, rehabilitation, remediation, sports injuries, stress, trauma, traumatic brain injury, treatments Audience: Neuropsychologists, clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, speech-language pathologists, social workers, counselors, and other professionals who work with brain-injured clients and their families"--Provided by publisher.

Pamela S, Klonoff, PhD, ABPP-CN, is a faculty neuropsychologist and (since 1993) Clinical Director of the Center for Transitional NeuroRehbilitation, Barrow Neurological Insitute of st. Joseph's Hospital and Medical center, Phoenix, Arizona. She has been affiliated with the program since 1986. Dr. klonoff is board certified in Clinical Neuropsychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. She specializes in outpatient milieu-oriented neurorehabilitation, with patients and their families after brain injury. Dr. Klonoff has published many articles and presented theoretical and clinical papars around the world; her expertise adn research focus on holistic neurorehabilitation, including psychotherapy and cognitive retraining after traumatic and other acquired brain injury.