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Counseling Individuals Post Acquired Brain Injury: Considerations and Objectives

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Survivors of acquired brain injuries (ABIs) all need to cope with the suddenness of an unexpected, life changing injury. In counseling brain injury survivors, the clinician encounters individuals whose characteristics vary across a multitude of dimensions, not limited to age, gender, cultural background, severity of trauma, or time since the injury. The clinician meets survivors whose educational backgrounds range from limited to extensive, whose personality styles range from private to demonstrative, whose coping skills are fragile to admirable, and whose support systems are uninvolved to overly involved. Whether employed as a firefighter, janitor, professor, ironworker, physician, or fisherman at the moment of the injury, the individual abruptly becomes a brain injury survivor, trying to recapture as much of the positive aspects of his or her preinjury self as possible. This chapter reviews the importance of awareness of deficit along with mood, self-concept, and behavioral challenges following ABI as well as effective treatment methods.

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Elbaum, J. (2019). Counseling Individuals Post Acquired Brain Injury: Considerations and Objectives. In: Elbaum, J. (eds) Acquired Brain Injury. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16613-7_12

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