Providing a context for understanding and evaluating the common consequences of mild brain injury, this text focuses on practical suggestions for helping individuals adjust to, and compensate for, residual difficulties.
PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Current Concepts and Approaches to Management; 2. Medical Aspects; 3. Assessment Issues; PART II: TREATMENT OF COGNITIVE SEQUELAE; 4. Attention; 5. Memory; 6. Executive Functions; PART III: TREATMENT OF EMOTIONAL SEQUELAE; 7. Psychotherapy Approaches; 8. Management of Depression; 9. Anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress; 10. Treatment of Irritability and Anger; PART IV: VOCATIONAL AND COMMUNITY INTEGRATION; 11. Vocation Rehabilitation; PART V: SPECIAL POPULATIONS; 12. Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children; 13. Cognitive Remediation of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in an Older Age Group; 14. Issues of Gender, Socio-Economic Status and Culture