Neuropsychological Treatment After Brain Injury

• 1. Introduction.- I. Theory and Intervention.- 2. Brain Injury: A Pathophysiological Basis for Neuropsychological Dysfunction.- 3. Issues in Behavioral Neurology and Brain Injury.- 4. Psychopharmacological Agents in the Treatment of Brain Injury.- 5. Traumatic Brain Injury and the Rehabilitation Process: A Psychiatric Perspective.- 6. The Neuropsychological Investigation as a Therapeutic and Rehabilitative Technique.- II. Rehabilitation Programs: Application of Theory.- 7. Interventions in the Inpatient Setting.- 8. Residential Treatment.- 9. Concepts in Day Programming.- III. Neuropsychological Rehabilitation Techniques.- 10. Neuropsychotherapy.- 11. Structured Group Treatment for Brain-Injury Survivors.- 12. Long-Term Family Intervention.- 13. Management of Aggressive Behavior Following Traumatic Brain Injury.- IV. Professional and Legal Issues.- 14. Professional Issues in Neuropsychological Rehabilitation.- 15. Legal Issues that Commonly Confront Brain-Injury Survivors and Their Families.

'This is a high level text, suitable as a reference source, or as an upper level undergraduate or graduate level text.' The Jounal of Nervous and Mental Disease, June 1991 '... highly recommends that this book should be required reading for psychologists, whose clinical practice involves evaluating or treating brain-injured individuals and/or their families.' Psychotherapy in Private Practice, 8/3