Captures the importance of belonging and the need for social connectedness- a key driver for positive adjustment post-injury.
Highlights the issues around how people with brain injuries are 'managed' in a residential home environment that is predominantly intended for elderly and frail individuals.
Covers a decades-long timespan of a survivor of brain injury.
Provides much needed support for patients and family members adjusting to life after brain injury.
Katie H. Williams is a writer who formerly taught classes in cultural and interpersonal communication, rhetoric, and writing at Indiana University and Ivy Tech Community College. She is also Dan's sister who has made, and watched others make, mistakes over the past 43 years that compromised the quality of his life, simply because she, and they, didn't know better. She learned a lot about these mistakes in her post-graduate education, studying communication and its impact on social as well as personal identity and belongingness. Then she learned more in the writing of this book, which she has put into practice with a satisfying degree of success.
Title: Belonging After Brain Injury: Relocating Dan (After Brain Injury: Survivor Stories)
Author: Williams, Katie H.
ISBN: 9781032374475
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publication Date: 2022-12-26
Number of Pages: 192
Weight: 0.3857 kg