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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- About the Author -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword to the First Edition by HRH The Prineess -- Headway -- Prefaees -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Information about Head Injury: Setting the Scene -- Introduction -- Seven Stories -- Letter from a Parent -- A Silent Epidemic -- Facts about Head Injury -- What Does the Brain Do? -- A Basie Anatomy Lesson -- 2 What Happens in a Head Injury -- The Injury Itself -- The First Injury -- The Second Injury -- The Third Injury -- Damage to the Skull -- Coma -- Post-traumatic Amnesia -- Degrees of Severity of Injury -- Mild Head Injury -- Moderate Head Injury -- Severe Head Injury -- Persistent Vegetative State -- Who's Who in the Rehabilitation Team -- Nurses -- Doctors -- Physiotherapist -- Occupational Therapist -- Clinical Psychologist -- Socia! Worker -- Speech & Language Therapist -- 3 The Road towards Recovery -- The Brain's Recovery -- Rehabilitation -- The Process of Care -- Assessment -- Stages of Recovery -- First Stage -- Second and Third Stages -- Fourth Stage -- Fifth Stage -- Improving Everyday Living Skills -- 4 Understanding and Coping with the Physical Effects of Head Injury -- Introduction -- Movement and Co-ordination -- Balance and Dizziness -- Dyspraxia -- Loss of Sensation -- Sense of smell and taste -- Fatigue and tiredness -- Headache -- Speaking and Swallowing Disorders -- Epilepsy -- Bladder and Bowel Incontinence -- 5 Understanding and Coping with Cognitive Symptoms after Head Injury -- Introduction -- Memory -- Different~esofMemo~ -- Memory Problems Caused by Head Injury -- Ways of Improving Vour Memory -- Attention and Concentration -- Examples of Attentional Difficu1ties -- Understanding Attentional Difficu1ties -- Speed of Information Processing -- Understanding Infonnation-processing Difficulties

Introduction to the first edition -- Introduction to the revised edition -- Acknowledgements -- Section 1. Managing anxiety -- Section 2. Assertiveness training -- Section 3. Managing depression -- Section 4. Managing stress -- Section 5. Changing habits & behaviour -- Section 6. Coping with psychosis, bipolar disorder & dementia -- Subject index.