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Casebook of Exemplary Evidence-Informed Programs That Foster Community Participation After Acquired Brain Injury
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Acquired brain injury (ABI) describes damage to the brain that occurs after birth, caused by traumatic injury
such as an accident or fall, or by non-traumatic cause such as substance abuse, stroke, or disease. Today's
medical techniques are improving the survival rate for people of all ages diagnosed with ABI, and current
trends in rehabilitation are supporting these individuals returning to live, attend school, and work in their
communities. Yet strategies on the best way of providing community participation vary among rehabilitation
experts. Because many of survivors of ABI do not and will not return to the status quo of their former lives it
is important to examine what constitutes best and promisingpractices in this area.
This casebook is the world's first compilation of evidence-informed programs that foster community
participation for people of all ages with brain injury. With thisreview, we elicited and carefully examined existing programmatic efforts that combine
emphasis on the individual, the social, and the service systems in a way that captures community participation as a complex process of interactive
change in the person-environment relationship - programs that do not divorce ABI survivors from their contexts, and where participation efforts
facilitate positive change in the social and political context. We considered community-based programs to be programs where individuals and families
actively participate in their own therapy (rehabilitation) and take responsibility for their own health or that of a family/community member.
Each case study chapter depicts a program chosen on its extraordinary merits to provide community participation to its clients. The chapters are cowritten
by the stakeholder and a researcher, giving a complete perspective of how the program was established and continues to operate, and provides
evidence of excellence. |
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