Blossoming Into Disability Culture Following Traumatic Brain Injury: The Lotus Arising
Book Details
- Publisher : Routledge
- Published : 2024
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 222
- Category :
Trauma and Violence - Catalogue No : 97645
- ISBN 13 : 9781032550022
- ISBN 10 : 1032550023
Table of Contents
Introduction
Planting the Seed: Where the Rubber Meets the Road
1. Setting the Context
Trek One
- Budding Through Non-Ideal Conditions: Off-Road
Years 1 and 2: Changes in Self-Perception: Loss of My Old Self
2. Potholes - Diagnosis and Evolving symptoms
3. Stepping Stones: Speech Language Therapy
4. Lost in the Alleyway: Impact of Awareness
5. The Broken Path: Hallmarks of Communication
Trek Two
- Rising Through Mud and Adversity: The Rocky Road
Years 3 and 4. Changes in Interpersonal Relationships: Reidentification
6. Not a Throughway: Intellect, Emotionality, Control of Behavior
7. Lost Trailways: Relationships and Loss of Identity
8. Finding a Footpath: Rehabilitation and My Life Coach
9. Unearthing Stepping Stones: Learning to Read and Write
10 Road to Recovery: Beginning of Self-Discovery
11. Road to Recovery: Beginning of Reidentification
12. Taking a Toll Road: Concurrent Mental Health Issues
13. Speed Bumps: Co-Morbidity with TBI and PTSD
14. Ruts in the Road: Reckoning with Anger
15. Breakdown Lane: Impatient Rehabilitation
Trek Three
- Petals Opening One by One: Changing Lanes
Years 5 and 6: Changes in Philosophy of Life: Acceptance of New Life
16. At the Cross Roads: Spiritual Crisis
17. Staying the Course: Transcending My Story
18. In the Right Lane: Moving Forward
Trek Four
- Ultimately Blossoming in the Sun: Paving a Way
Years 7 and Beyond: Toward New Growth: Hope
19. Opening Passageways: Insight, Value and Growth
20. Trail Blazing onto a Steady Path: Blossoming into Disability Culture