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Helping You Family Member to Recover from a Head Injury(1)

January 15, 2010

INTRODUCTION This guidebook is the companion to Self-Therapy for Head Injury: Teaching Yourself to Prevent Head-Injured Moments. It instructs family members, friends, and other supporters in how to assist the survivor of a severe head injury in doing self-therapy. Each issue is introduced in a chapter in the self-therapy guide. The recovery strategies are also [...]

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CHAPTER ONE: Step One: Learning About Injury

You are reading this family guide because your husband, wife, son, daughter or friend who sustained the head injury (whom I will refer to as “the survivor”) is a candidate for self therapy. Self-therapy begins when he or she reads the self-therapy manual. That guide is divided up into relatively brief chapters, and the subject [...]

CHAPTER TWO: Head-Injured Moments

A head-injured moment is a point in time in which the brain fails to think clearly and carefully, and as a result, fails to notice something that needs to be noticed, makes a poor decision, or tries to do something too casually to do it properly. In a head-injured moment, the survivor may have been [...]

CHAPTER THREE: Learning How to Recognize Head-Injured Moments

Chapter Three in the self-therapy manual begins by introducing the ideas I just discussed at the end of your Chapter Two. Certain situations tend to cause behavior to malfunction. A survivor who wants to recover needs to learn how to spot both the situations and the malfunctions. Once the survivor understands what head-injured moments are, [...]


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