Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Keith Cicerone
- Preface
- Section 1 Background and theory
- Section 2 Group interventions
- Section 3 Case illustrations
- 13 Peter: successful rehabilitation following a severe head injury with cerebrovascular complications
- 14 Lorna: applying models of language, calculation and learning within holistic rehabilitation: from dysphasia and dyscalculia to independent cooking and travel
- 15 Caroline: treating post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic brain injury
- 16 Interdisciplinary vocational rehabilitation addressing pain, fatigue, anxiety and impulsivity: Yusuf and his ‘new rules for business and life’
- 17 Judith: learning to do things ‘at the drop of a hat’: behavioural experiments to explore and change the ‘meaning’ in meaningful functional activity
- 18 Simon: brain injury and the family – the inclusion of children, family members and wider systems in the rehabilitation process
- 19 Adam: extending the therapeutic milieu into the community in the rehabilitation of a client with severe aphasia and apraxia
- 20 Malcolm: coping with the effects of Balint's syndrome and topographical disorientation
- 21 Kate: cognitive recovery and emotional adjustment in a young woman who was unresponsive for several months
- Section 4 Outcomes
- Index
- Plate section
15 - Caroline: treating post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic brain injury
from Section 3 - Case illustrations
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 March 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of contributors
- Foreword by Keith Cicerone
- Preface
- Section 1 Background and theory
- Section 2 Group interventions
- Section 3 Case illustrations
- 13 Peter: successful rehabilitation following a severe head injury with cerebrovascular complications
- 14 Lorna: applying models of language, calculation and learning within holistic rehabilitation: from dysphasia and dyscalculia to independent cooking and travel
- 15 Caroline: treating post-traumatic stress disorder after traumatic brain injury
- 16 Interdisciplinary vocational rehabilitation addressing pain, fatigue, anxiety and impulsivity: Yusuf and his ‘new rules for business and life’
- 17 Judith: learning to do things ‘at the drop of a hat’: behavioural experiments to explore and change the ‘meaning’ in meaningful functional activity
- 18 Simon: brain injury and the family – the inclusion of children, family members and wider systems in the rehabilitation process
- 19 Adam: extending the therapeutic milieu into the community in the rehabilitation of a client with severe aphasia and apraxia
- 20 Malcolm: coping with the effects of Balint's syndrome and topographical disorientation
- 21 Kate: cognitive recovery and emotional adjustment in a young woman who was unresponsive for several months
- Section 4 Outcomes
- Index
- Plate section
Summary
Introduction
Most people who suffer serious traumatic brain injury (TBI) have a period of loss of consciousness and post-traumatic amnesia that typically means that they do not recall the moment of injury itself. They may also have a gap in memory stretching from some time prior to injury to some time after the injury. Therefore despite going through the traumatic experience of a motor vehicle accident or assault or fall the individual may have no recollection of the incident itself. Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a mood disorder characterized by re-experiencing (flashbacks, nightmares), avoidance and arousal symptoms (e.g. hypervigilance) in relation to having experienced, witnessed or been confronted by an event involving death or serious injury that results in feelings of fear, helplessness or horror (American Psychiatric Association, 2000). In the context of amnesia for the traumatic event, the question as to whether PTSD can occur after TBI, has been the subject of some debate (Sbordone and Liter 1995; Bryant et al. 2000; Williams et al. 2002; Sumpter and McMillan 2006). However, it is generally accepted now that, through various different mechanisms, PTSD can occur after TBI (Bryant, 2001). Some people who suffer a closed head injury have partial recall of the incident (Creamer et al. 2005) with some experiencing specific ‘islands’ of memory for traumatic events (King, 1997).
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- Neuropsychological RehabilitationTheory, Models, Therapy and Outcome, pp. 227 - 236Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2009
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