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Addressing brain injury in under-resourced settings : a practical guide to community-centred approaches
- Author(s):
- Balchin, Ross, author
- Coetzer, Rudi, author
- Salas, Christian, (Clinical neuropsychologist), author
- Webster, Jan, author
- Title(s):
- Addressing brain injury in under-resourced settings : a practical guide to community-centred approaches / Ross Balchin, Rudi Coetzer, Christian Salas, and Jan Webster ; illustrations by Maya Le Maitre and Michaela Younge.
- Country of Publication:
- England
- Publisher:
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018.
- Copyright Date:
- 2018
- Description:
- x, 331 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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Language:
- English
- ISBN:
- 9781138903395
1138903396
9781138903401
113890340X
9781315696959
- LCCN:
- 2017014355
- MeSH:
- Brain Injuries*
Internationality
Medically Underserved Area
Neurological Rehabilitation
Neuropsychology/methods
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents:
- Section I. Under-resourced settings : the global reality -- Introduction : brain injury in the global context -- Communities and cross-cultural realities -- Section II. Understanding brain injury and working with its consequences -- How the brain works -- The injured brain : trauma and diseases -- How to recognise whether a patient is orientated -- How to recognise and engage with memory problems -- How to recognise and engage with language problems -- How to recognise and engage with spatial cognition problems -- How to recognise and engage with executive control problems -- How to recognise and engage with emotional change, mood problems, and other psychiatric presentations -- How to recognise and engage with socio-emotional problems -- How to recognise and engage with sleep problems -- Understanding patients' medications and medical investigations -- Section III. How to provide services in under-resourced settings -- Patient needs : the continuum of care -- Caring for an individual : emergency to recovery to rehabilitation -- Emotional adjustment : how to facilitate the process -- Volunteering -- Transferable technology : helpful tools -- Working with organizations and communities -- How to initiate and develop community-based projects and programmes -- Community-based public health initiatives for preventing brain injury.
- Other ID:
- (OCoLC)982044130
- NLM ID:
- 101719433 [Book]