The Mild Traumatic Brain Injury Workbook: Your Program for Regaining Cognitive Function and Overcoming Emotional Pain

by Douglas J. Mason, Marc Irwin Sharfman (Foreword)

A blow to the head or the dramatic acceleration and deceleration that occur in a serious car crash can cause a traumatic injury to the brain. At their most serious, these events are critical and life threatening, but even a mild incident can cause problems with memory, communication, and mental focus. What’s worse, this kind of cognitive function loss often causes other psychological symptoms like depression and low self-esteem. Fortunately, there are things anyone can do to recover from a mild traumatic brain injury, get back lost cognitive ability, and restore a healthy frame of mind.

If you or someone you love has suffered a mild traumatic brain injury, this engaging workbook will help you:


Learn the causes and symptoms of MTBI Understand the brain injury recovery timeline Manage medical care and set realistic goals for recovery Recover memory, communication, and visuospatial ability Cope with related symptoms like depression, anxiety, and low self-esteem

192 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2004

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Reviews

[Kathy · Rating 1 out of 5]

I found this book to be confusing and counterproductive while I was healing from a brain injury. It has a series of puzzles and exercises that were quite discouraging. The explanations of brain injury and the after effects of brain injury are good but the exercises were frustration and I actually felt MORE injured as I tried to do them.

[Cathy Bee · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm not sure why this has less than 4-5 starts as this is the workbook I used in my recovery and although there were several aspects that are still a little high in cognitive processing for a patient like myself which is still in recovery, I think the only changes I would make is to the reader who is a patient like myself being treated for a TBI, to NOT adhere to the title at the "mild" part... a TBI is a TBI and it affects different cognition functions from person to person. I started out the book maybe too soon in my recovery as it was overwhelming. Now and when I come back to it little by little, it helps. I would recommend for the readers to not take the assessments lightly. And also, for the information portions to soak it in slowly section by section. But it's all really good golden stuff. Highly recommend, just watch your methods when processing the information.

[Cara · Rating 5 out of 5]

If you find yourself or a loved one in a situation where a mild TBI workbook is needed, just buy it, just do it.