Description
Book SynopsisFamily Therapy of Neurobehavioral Disorders shows you a unique integration of neuropsychology and family therapy. Authors Judith L. Johnson and William G. McCown span these two broad areas by synthesizing family therapy principles and applying them specifically to traumatic brain injury and degenerative dementia. Family therapists, neuropsychologists, social workers, and counselors working with patients who experience brain dysfunction and their families learn to better address common issues and problems and of therapeutic interventions. This expert book includes case examples and working models of family reactions. The book then extends this information into practical clinical situations commonly confronted in work with these patients and their families. Readers of Family Therapy of Neurobehavioral Disorders are introduced to brain-behavior relationships including neuroanatomy of the brain as it relates to behavior, dynamics of neurologic disorders, and common symptoms of brain dys
Table of Contents
Contents
Neurobehavioral Compromise and Family Therapy
- Fundamentals of Brain-Behavior Function and Dysfunction
- Family Therapy and Medical Illnesses: Fundamental Models
- The Neurocompromised Individual and Their Family: Understanding the Experience of Estrangement
- Family Adjustment Models and the Caregiver: The Reality of Caregiving and Burden
- A New Developmental Model of Adaptation to Traumatic Brain Injury
- Family Adaptation Models to Dementia
- Family Adaptation to Brain Disorders: The Contributions of Chaos and Complexity Theories
- Family Dynamics Associated with Mild Head Injury
- Pragmatic Concerns with Compromised Brain Function: The Tasks of an Emerging Profession
- References
- Index
