Barbara A. Wilson, Jill Winegardner, Fiona Ashworth

Gebundenes Buch

Life After Brain Injury

Survivors' Stories

Beschreibung

This book is essentially an account of twenty people who have survived an insult to the brain through traumatic brain injury (TBI), encephalitis, stroke or hypoxic brain damage.

Autor

Barbara A. Wilson is a neuropsychologist and founder of the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Ely, UK. She has worked in brain injury rehabilitation for over 35 years and has published 18 books, 270 journal articles and chapters and 8 neuropsychological tests. Among her many awards she has an OBE and two lifetime achievement awards. She is the editor of the journal Neuropsychological Rehabilitation and has a rehabilitation centre in Ecuador named after her. Jill Winegardner is a clinical neuropsychologist with 30 years' experience in brain injury assessment and rehabilitation. She has worked in a range of settings including acute inpatient, acute and post-acute rehabilitation, residential rehabilitation and outpatient care. She is currently lead clinical psychologist at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for Neuropsychological Rehabilitation. Her clinical and research interests include neuropsychological assessment and rehabilitation and programme design and evaluation. Fiona Ashworth is a clinical psychologist with over ten years' experience in working with people with acquired brain injury. Since completing her doctorate in clinical psychology at the University of Oxford, she has worked for five years at the Oliver Zangwill Centre for neuropsychological rehabilitation. She is currently a senior lecturer in psychology at Anglia Ruskin University. Fiona also continues to work as a clinical psychologist at the Evelyn Community Head Injury Service, a project developed by the Oliver Zangwill Centre.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Psychology Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 467g
• ISBN-13: 9781848721111
• ISBN-10: 1848721110
• Artikelnr.: 37784396