Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain: Rebuilding Adult Lifestyles After Injury - Hardback

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Overview

One of the most neglected aftereffects of brain injury is gender role strain. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain tells the story of four brain-injured men who suffered because they had lost the roles, relationships, and activities that had once defined their identities as adult men. This book describes the specialized intervention method that helped them recreate their adult male roles and facilitated greater feelings of competency, personal life control, and normalcy in their personal lives and in the larger community setting. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain offers timely and important information for health care professionals and family members of individuals with long-term brain injury. This is also an inspiring book for anyone with a brain injury who is struggling to rebuild a life as a competent adult.