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Brain injury case management involves the care and support of brain-injured individuals and their families in a range of areas, from personal injury litigation to the planning of treatment and therapy regimes. "Good Practice in Brain Injury Case Management" provides a guide to effective case management, outlining all the key issues that professionals working with brain-injured people will need to know, from understanding what brain injury actually is and how it feels to experience it to strategies for rehabilitation, assessing risk and implementing support plans. The contributors are drawn from a wide range of disciplines, including social work, neuropsychology, occupational therapy and legal practice, and offer information and advice in clear jargon-free. This is an essential handbook for case managers and all other professionals working with brain injured people.
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Good Practice in Brain Injury Case Management
Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice Edited by Jacki Pritchard This series explores topics of current concern to professionals working in social work, health care and the probation service. Contributors are drawn from a wide variety of settings, in both the voluntary and statutory sectors. Jacki Pritchard has worked as a practitioner and manager in both fieldwork and hospital settings. She is also an accredited practice teacher and has been employed as a trainer and consultant in England and Northern Ireland. Good Practice in Supervision Statutory and Voluntary Organisations
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Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Risk Management 1 Edited by Hazel Kemshall and Jacki Pritchard ISBN 1 85302 338 8 Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice 3
Good Practice in Counselling People Who Have Been Abused Edited by Zetta Bear ISBN 1 85302 424 4 Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice 4
Good Practice in Risk Assessment and Risk Management 2 Protection, Rights and Responsibilities
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Good Practice in Working with Violence Edited by Hazel Kemshall and Jacki Pritchard ISBN 1 85302 641 7 Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice 6
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Good Practice with Vulnerable Adults Edited by Jacki Pritchard ISBN 1 85302 982 3 Good Practice in Health, Social Care and Criminal Justice 9
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Good Practice in Brain Injury Case Management Edited by Jackie Parker Foreword by David J. Price
Jessica Kingsley Publishers London and Philadelphia
First published in 2006 by Jessica Kingsley Publishers 116 Pentonville Road London N1 9JB, UK and 400 Market Street, Suite 400 Philadelphia, PA 19106, USA www.jkp.com Copyright © Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2006 Foreword copyright © David J. Price 2006 The right of the contributors to be identified as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced in any material form (including photocopying or storing it in any medium by electronic means and whether or not transiently or incidentally to some other use of this publication) without the written permission of the copyright owner except in acco