UID:
almahu_9949708169602882
Umfang:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003428510
,
1003428517
,
9781003854012
,
100385401X
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9781003853992
,
1003853994
Serie:
After brain injury : survivor stories
Inhalt:
"This book tells the author's story of her ten-year journey of recovery and identity transformation from Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Dr. Dee is a survivor who regained the ability to articulate what many TBI survivors cannot, and this powerful account, provided in real-time, portrays the many seemingly unrelatable symptoms of brain injury and subsequent post-traumatic stress disorder. Dr. Dee portrays how events pushed her beyond her limits and resulted in life-altering learning experiences, revealing a process of first figuring out how to live, then making meaning of her struggle. When half-way through her PhD program, Dr. Dee was crashed into by a car travelling at sixty-five miles per hour. She suffered a TBI. She lost her ability to read and write. She had a severe speech impediment and significantly impaired memory. Her journey of recovery, described in the book as her trek, spans four significant periods. The road begins with the loss of most of herself. Diagnosis and evolving symptoms show her broken pathway. The author goes through a rocky road of changes in her relationships and reidentification of herself as she finds her life coach, re-learns to read and write, and deals with mental health issues that felt like the end of her recovery. The final trek reveals hope and posttraumatic growth (PTG) and showcases the value of Disability Culture as a source of pride. This story is for fellow TBI survivors, their caretakers, families and friends, and professionals in the neurorehabilitation field. It brings light to the daunting changes after TBI and give hope for all who tread on this challenging path"--
Anmerkung:
Setting the context -- Potholes -- diagnosis and evolving symptoms -- Stepping stones : speech language therapy -- Lost in the alleyway : impact of awareness -- The broken path : hallmarks of communication -- Not a throughway : intellect, emotionality, control of behavior -- Lost trailways : relationships and loss of identity -- Finding a footpath : rehabilitation and my life coach -- Unearthing stepping stones : learning to read and write -- Road to recovery : beginning of self-discovery -- Road to recovery : beginning of reidentification -- Taking a toll road : concurrent mental health issues -- Speed bumps : co-morbidity with TBI and PTSD -- Ruts in the road : reckoning with anger -- Breakdown lane : impatient rehabilitation -- At the cross roads : spiritual crisis -- Staying the course : transcending my story -- In the right lane : moving forward -- Opening passageways : insight, value and growth -- Trail blazing onto a steady path : blossoming into disability culture.
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version: Genetti, Dee Phyllis. Blossoming into disability culture following traumatic brain injury New York, NY : Routledge, 2024 ISBN 9781032550046
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.4324/9781003428510
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003428510
