Brain injury and gender role strain : rebuilding adult lifestyles after injury / Sharon A. Gutman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gutman, Sharon A., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Brain damage--Patients--Rehabilitation.

Brain damage.

Occupational therapy.

Sex role.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (172 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2000, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Discover new interventions to restore self-respect and personal life control!When men suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), they can lose their sense of competence, confidence, and masculinity, resulting in a gender role strain. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain offers an innovative solution to help such men regain a masculine identity. This important book 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.Most traumatic brain injury is suffered between th

Contents:

Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1. Introduction: "I Never Thought This Is How My Life Would Turn Out"; Chapter 2. The Histories of Four Men with TBI; Chapter 3. The Men's Experience of Gender Role Strain After TBI; Chapter 4. The Intervention Process: A Description of the Treatment Methods Used to Alleviate Gender Role Strain; Chapter 5. Each Man's Intervention Story: Rebuilding a Satisfying Adult Life After TBI; Chapter 6. Greater Satisfaction with Post-Injury Male Gender Roles: The Men's Self-Reports

Chapter 7. Conclusion: An Analysis of the Intervention's EffectivenessEpilogue: My Final Thoughts; References; Index

Notes:

Brain injury and gender role strain : rebuilding adult lifestyles after injury has been co-published simultaneously as Occupational therapy in mental health, volume 15, numbers 3/4, 2000.

First published 2000 by The Haworth Press, Inc.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-7890-1187-5

1-315-82141-9

1-317-82579-9

1-317-82580-2

9781315821412

OCLC:

878144119