Overview
- Explains the experience of brain injury from the perspective of people with brain injury
- Provides concepts to assist the health professional view their clients in a new way
- Links educational learning to the rehabilitation and care of people with acquired brain injury
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Acquired brain injury
- Wellbeing of people with brain injury
- Treating acquired brain injury
- Acquired brain injury and professional practice
- Acquired brain injury and quality of life
- Traumatic brain injury
- Understanding acquired brain injury
- Experience of people with acquired brain injury
- Emotional challenges of acquired brain injury
- Acquired brain injury stigma
- Acquired brain injury rehabilitation
- Brain injury grey literature
- Perspectives on disability
- Body-object research
- Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
- Acquired brain injury and loss of self
- Acquired brain injury and grief
- Acquired brain injury and empathy
About this book
This book offers an empowering approach to working with people with an acquired brain injury (ABI) based upon the views and perspectives of people with ABI themselves. Drawing upon Christine Durham's own ABI experience and Paul Ramcharan’s engagement in disability research over a quarter of a century, this volume gives voice to 36 participants with ABI, as well as carers and other professionals from both urban and rural areas. This unique perspective provides a long-needed, empathic alternative to the deficit-based model of ABI that dominates medical literature and existing rehabilitation models. In Insight into Acquired Brain Injury, the authors use educational and learning principles together with Durham’s extensive archive of experiential data to offer a reframing of the nature and experience of ABI and relevant a set of practical, real-world tools for practitioners. These ready-to-adopt-and-adapt scripts, guided interviews, research checklists, thinking tools and other innovative techniques are designed to engage with people and colleagues about brain injury as a means of supporting them to feel and fare better. With compassion and first-hand awareness, Insight into Acquired Brain Injury provides a much-needed perspective that deepens current understanding and translates the complicated life-worlds of people living with ABI in order to motivate, empower and increase their participation.
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Authors and Affiliations
About the authors
Christine Durham is the author of Doing Up Buttons (Penguin Books) and Unlocking my Brain: Through the Labyrinth of Acquired Brain Injury (Ventura Press). Over two decades ago she suffered extensive injuries including an acquired brain injury in a horrific car accident. After learning how to talk, walk and think again, Christine returned to teaching with new insights into how children learn and engage with ideas. She has now completed a PhD and speaks to a variety of audiences in Australia and overseas about both education and her experience of acquired brain injury, including community organizations, leadership and rehabilitation groups, health professionals, universities, school faculty and parents. Christine’s work has appeared in magazines and newspapers and her book, Chasing Ideas (Finch Publishing), has been translated into Chinese, Korean and Arabic. Christine was the Victorian Senior Australian of the Year 2014 and was the Brainlink Women of Achievement 2012.
Paul Ramcharan is an associate professor at the Centre for Applied Social Research at RMIT University and is co-director of research at the Future Social Service Institute . He has been involved in research with and for people with disabilities for over 25 years with a strong focus on advocacy and empowerment. Since arriving in Australia his work has encompassed these themes alongside human rights and disability, the reduction of restrictive practices and choice-making. Paul has occupied a number of national positions as a research manager in the UK. With a colleague he coordinated a thirteen-project national research initiative designed to support implementation of Valuing People, an English white paper designed to improve the lives of people with intellectual disabilities. He has been on several research panels including for the Big Lottery Fund and the Social Care Institute of Excellence in the UK. In his role with the Future Social Service Institute Paul is seeking to develop co-design intoresearch processes, to establish empowering practice through both research and action.Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Insight into Acquired Brain Injury
Book Subtitle: Factors for Feeling and Faring Better
Authors: Christine Durham, Paul Ramcharan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-5666-6
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-5665-9Published: 04 August 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5458-8Published: 04 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-5666-6Published: 26 July 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 219
Number of Illustrations: 60 b/w illustrations
Topics: Quality of Life Research, Public Health, Quality of Life Research