Brain Injury Association of Mississippi
"Improving the quality of life for survivors of traumatic brain and spinal cord injuries and their families and
supporting programs designed to prevent brain injuries."
Volume 1 -
Brain Injury: A Guide for Families
1996 - This introductory volume
addresses the emotional and
behavioral problems of the persons
with brain injury and their families.  
It provides resolution techniques for
problem areas as well as real-life
examples of management
situations. 59 pages.
Volume 2 - Brain Injury: A Home Based
Cognitive Rehabilitation Programs
1997 - Written to assist the families
of persons with a brain injury in
continuing the process of
rehabilitation at home.  Included in
this volume are instructions on how
to structure retraining activities,
cognitive tasks and set educational
objectives. 59 pages
Volume 3 - Hiring the Head Injured: What
to Expect
1989 - This manual serves a "back
to work" guide for employers,
vocational counselors, attorneys,
families, workers compensation and
rehabilitation case managers, 59
pages
Volume 4 - Life After Brain Injury: Who Am
I?
1996 - Written specifically for rather
than about persons with a brain
injury.  This volume explains the
behavioral and cognitive changes
that have taken place and offers
suggestions for positive change, 93
pages.
Volume 1 - Head Injury Rehabilitation: An
Overview
By William H. Burke.  The purpose
of this manual is to provide an
overview of the common problems
that result from TBI and to discuss
some of the general principles of
TBI rehabilitation that have proven
successful. 43 pages.
Volume 2 - Applied Behavior Analysis in
Brain Injury Rehab
By William H Burke.  The Purpose
of this manual is to suggest that
rehabilitation professionals can
increase success in treating
individuals with TBI with proven
behavior analysis strategies. 60
pages
Volume 3 - Community Living Skills
By William H. Burke, 1996.  This
manual provides methods for
professionals to use to help brain
injured  individuals to re-develop
important life skills that benefit them
in school, home and jobs. 60 pages.
Volume 5 - Adaptive Driving After TBI
By C. Alan Hopewell, 1996.  This
manual is intended to present
practical and current knowledge of
driving after traumatic brain injury.
34 pages.
Volume 6 - Brain Injury Rehabilitation:
Managing Anger and Aggression
By Michael Weslowski, The
chapters in this manual provide
guidelines for defining anger
successful in reducing aggressive
behaviors and replacing it with
pro-social behaviors. 54 pages.
Volume 7 - Managing Attention Deficits
By Richard Guare, 1996.  The
purposes of this manual are to
define the components of attention;
to provide examples of how these
components are manifested in
every day life; to present methods
for evaluation; and to provide
rehabilitation strategies for deficits
in various attentional processes. 45
pages.
Volume 9 - Developing Social Skills
By William H. Burk.  The purpose of
this manual is to present methods
currently in use and others that are
in the developmental stages to
increase the abilities of persons
with brain injuries to decode social
cues, to become better social
problem solvers, and to perform
pro-social behaviors in response to
situational demands. 64 pages.
Volume 10 - Sexuality After TBI
By W.F. Blackery.  This monograph
attempts to address some of the
barriers to incorporating sexuality
issues into head injury
rehabilitation.  It describes the
neuropathology disturbance
following head injury and the sexual
behaviors that occur at varying
stages in the rehabilitation process.
61 pages.
Volume 11 - Developing Motivation
 
Volume 12 - Brain Injury Rehab With
Children and Adolescents
By Mark Guth.  The purpose of this
manual is to briefly review the
primary residual deficits or barriers
to independence that result from
TBI, to discuss the service "needs"
of TBI survivors, and to provide a
framework from which individuals
can successfully access existing
community services and resources.
72 pages.
Volume 13 - Accessing Community
Resources: Discharge Planning
By Mark Buth.  The purpose of this
manual is to briefly review the
primary residual deficits or barriers
to independence that result from
TBI, to discuss the service "needs"
of TBI survivors, and to provide a
framework from which individuals
can successfully access existing
community services and resources.
72 pages.
Volume 14 - Developing Self Control
By Michael Wesolowski.  Damage to
the frontal lobes of the brain results
in dis-inhibition and the lack of
ability to control impulses.  This
book provides clinicians with
techniques to teach sell-control to
these clients. 62 pages.
Volume 17 - Developing Adaptive Work
Behaviors
This manual illustrates the use of
applied behavior analysis to
promote adaptive work behaviors in
TBI survivors. 45 pages.
Volume 18 - Supported Employment and
TBI
By William H. Burke.  This manual
will assist professionals who are
involved in developing a supported
employment program for TBI clients.
 60 pages.
Volume 19 - The Role of the Family in TBI
Rehab
By Mark Guth. The purpose of this
manual is to review common
characteristics of families affected
By traumatic brain injury, discuss
the stages of adjustment that
families frequently undergo, and
highlight special issues that arise in
different family groups. 49 pages.
Volume 20 - Management of
Communication and Language Deficits  
By Mark Ylvisaker.  This booklet
provides an overview of the speech,
communication, and language
problems resulting from TBI.
Home Care of Stroke Survivors
By Annette Houseworth, Paddy
Garvin and Donna Koshiba,
editorial consultants.  1996.  The
two booklets and videos provided in
this program are designed to
address the day-to-day home care
challenges of stroke recovery.  
Specifically, this series provides the
non professional home caregiver
with both an overview and specific
suggestions for helping persons
recovering from the two most
common kinds of stroke: (1) Left
Brain (2) Right Brain Stroke.  
Published By Aspen Publishers.
neuropathology for the Attorney
By Robert J. Sbordone, Ph.D. 1994.
 This book will assist trial attorneys
with the difficulties involved in
presenting brain injury cases before
juries, judges, or claims adjusters.  
It is for cases involving personal
injury, disability, criminal law and
other cases involving brain damage
or post traumatic stress disorders.  
Information is given about the field
of neuropathology in order for
attorneys to properly use nero
psychologists as experts and as
treatment specialists.  Also included
are numerous tables, figures,
illustrations and photographs.  
GR/ST. Lucie Press, 372 pages.
Neurolaw: Brain and Spinal Cord Injuries
By J. Sherrod Taylor. 1998.  This
book represents the first effort to
address the new field of personal
injury trial practice known as
neurolaw.  Specifically, this volume
deals with the acquisition,
investigation, preparation, trial and
appeal of tort cases involving
traumatic brain injury (TBI) and
spinal cord injury (SCI).  The author
shares experience, insight and
advise,  Primarily, the book was
written for plaintiff's counsel
although others in the legal
profession, survivors of TBI's and
SCI's and their families, insurance
adjusters and others may derive
benefit from these pages. Published
By Alta Press.
Staff Development and Clinical
Intervention In Brain Injury Rehabilitation
By Charles J. Durgin, Nancy D.
Schmidt, and L. Jeanne Fryer.  
1993.  This book was written for
managers in neuron rehabilitation,
senior clinicians, and for teachers
of clinicians to assist them in
providing training for their staff
members in caring for the brain
injured patient.  Aspen Publishers,
Inc, 382 pages.
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