Acquired Brain Injury: An Integrative Neuro-Rehabilitation Approach
Edited by Jean Elbaum, Ph.D., and Deborah M. Benson, Ph.D., ABPP Transitions of Long Island, North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System

Regardless of etiology, such as accident, tumor, stroke or assault, acquired brain injury presents numerous challenges for survivors, caregivers and treating professionals. Interdisciplinary and integrated evaluations, treatment, and management can mean the difference between successful recovery and unfortunate outcomes.

The first book to present a comprehensive team approach to rehabilitation of ABI survivors, Acquired Brain Injury gives medical and clinical specialists a deeper understanding of not only each others' roles, but also their complementary functions.

• The medical management of ABI neurosurgery,neurology, physiatry and the medical specialties involved neuropsychiatry,neurosurgery, and neuro-optometry
• In-depth discussion of the roles of occupational,speech-language, and balance therapies
• Separate chapters on nursing, neuropsychology, andcase management
• Behavioral and emotional challenges common toindividuals with ABI
• The importance of addressing family needs
• Long-term challenges
• Case examples throughout illustrating a wide range of injuries, symptoms,and stages of recovery

Based on the editors combined experience of more than 40 years in theneuro-rehabilitation field, this comprehensive volume clarifies rehabilitation goals and processes for the physician, the rehab specialist, the advanced student, and patients advocates. With ABI so prevalent roughly 1.5 million new cases per year, this book couldn't be more timely.

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Functional Memory Manual
by Jean Elbaum, Peggy Kramer, Carrie Dulaski, and Deborah Benson
© 2001 Imaginart International Inc. All rights reserved.

Memory deficits may be the biggest single barrier to independent living, socialization, and home and family life. This interdisciplinary approach to building functional memory skills emphasizes the use of internal and external strategies to improve recall. You'll even have an appendix with carryover suggestions for significant others. The chapters cover:

A comprehensive review of memory from atransdisciplinary perspective addresses everything from medication effects andanatomical correlates of memory loss to stimulation therapy and compensatory strategies. You won't find anything like the exercises for attention in other clinical manuals. Various exercises of increasing difficulty address sustained, selective, alternating, and divided attention. The auditory recall exercises animate clients' interest with sections on sports, history, health, and fiction. Visual recall activities revolve around such functional skills as reading calendars, catalogs, and maps. Sequential recall is targeted in stories and functional memory assignments. These exercises also involve a planning component, such as planning a trip or going shopping.Help your clients at all levels of functioning regain a sense of independence and empowerment with a brand new tool.

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RELATED LINKS

National/Regional TBI Organization Websites

• Brain Injury Association of NY State
• Long Island Head Injury Association
• Brain Injury Society
• Coma Recovery Association

Brain Injury-Related Sites

• The Brain Injury Information Network
• National Resource Center For TBI
• The Perspectives Network
• Neurotrauma Law Center
• Traumatic Brain Injury Survival Guide
• American Brain Tumor Association
• Epilepsy Foundation
• Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association
• TBI Help Desk for Caregivers
• Lawyers Representing Indviduals with Brain Injuries