Practical Neuropsychological Rehabilitation in Acquired Brain Injury

Dr Rudi Coetzer is with the North Wales Brain Injury Service, Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board NHS Wales, where he works full-time as a consultant neuropsychologist. He is an honorary senior lecturer in the School of Psychology, Bangor University. Dr Audrey Daisley is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist at the Oxford Centre for Enablement (an NHS post-acute brain injury rehabilitation service) which is part of Oxford University Hospitals NHS Trust. She is the lead clinical psychologist for the unit's family support service and is committed to supporting and improving outcomes for those affected by brain injury and their families. Dr Daisley has a particular interest in the issues facing children who have a relative with brain injury and in 1995 established the first NHS service to specifically support child relatives. As well as working clinically, Dr Daisley is actively involved in family focused research and regularly teaches and supervises a wide range of rehabilitation professionals in family related issues. She is a member of the British Psychological Society and a full practitioner member of its Division of Neuropsychology. She is also a chartered clinical psychologist and a member of the UK Health Professions Council. Dr Gavin Newby has twenty years' experience as a clinical neuropsychologist in the UK of working with people who have an acquired brain injury (ABI) and their families. He is currently the Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist with the Cheshire & Wirral ABI Service and provides community-based individual and family interventions across the county. He has published a number of articles on website design, mental capacity assessments, using emails in psychotherapy, parenting after ABI, risk management, and return to driving. Dr Stephen Weatherhead is a clinical psychologist specialising in brain injury. He co-founded Neuro Family Matters (www.neurofamilymatters.co.uk) in 2010 in order to proved flexible, individualised psychological support to individuals and families. He specialises in The Mental Capacity Act, with a particular emphasis on assessment, multi-agency working, and systemic perspectives. He is a clinical tutor and lecturer in health research with the Lancaster University Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.

Series Editors' Foreword , Foreword , Preface , Introduction , Getting Started: The Essential Knowledge and Basic Skills for Successful Working in Acquired Brain Injury , Prelude , Behavioural neuroanatomy , Neuropsychological assessment: the not-so-basic basics , Therapy and engagement , Social consequences and social solutions: community neuro-rehabilitation in real social environments 1 , Being in Practice: Working with the Issues Faced by Real Clients with Acquired Brain Injuries Living in the Real World Assessment in Specific Contexts , Low awareness conditions: their assessment and treatment , Assessment of mental capacity , Driving after acquired brain injury: rehabilitation and therapy , Vocational rehabilitation after acquired brain injury , Opportunistic group work: service-based and community support group examples , The use of emails and texts in psychological therapy after acquired brain injury , Working with relationships in standard neuro-rehabilitation practice , Supporting families and parenting after parental brain injury , Working with Professional and Organisational Systems , Leading a community acquired brain injury team: the South Cheshire experience , Thinking creatively about continuing professional development , Making Sense of It All: Reflections and Insights , Epilogue: putting it into practice in the real world