Psychological Therapy for Paediatric Acquired Brain Injury

List of illustrations

Editors' acknowledgements

About the editors

List of contributors

Preface

Series editor's foreword

Experts by experience reflections

INTRODUCTION

Jenny Jim and Heather Liddiard

PART I: GETTING STARTED
CHAPTER ONE
"My life story" by the brain

Jenny Jim

CHAPTER TWO
An introduction to paediatric acquired brain injury

Daniel Stark, Suresh Pujar, Isobel Heyman and Tara Murphy

CHAPTER THREE
Assessment in paediatric acquired brain injury

Suzanna Watson and Fergus Gracey

CHAPTER FOUR
Using biopsychosocial formulations in paediatric neurorehabilitation

Jenny Jim and Heather Liddiard

PART II: INNOVATIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL THERAPY

CHAPTER FIVE

Narrative-inspired interview with the brain

Jenny Jim

CHAPTER SIX
Child-centred play therapy for trauma: from non-verbal to narrative expression

Anne Fullalove

CHAPTER SEVEN
Structured narrative therapy for children with severe acquired brain injury and severe communication difficulties

Alison Perkins

CHAPTER EIGHT
Systemic and narrative therapeutic work with families whose child has sustained a profound brain injury

Rachel Ames

CHAPTER NINE

Narrative approaches for behaviour that challenges post-injury

Esther Cole

CHAPTER TEN
The 'Beads of Life' approach adapted for young people with an acquired brain injury

Sara Portnoy and Liz Ireland

CHAPTER ELEVEN

Systemic storytelling following childhood acquired brain injury: a family business

Sarah Helps

CHAPTER TWELVE
Psychotherapy for children and young people with brain injury in conflict with the law

Huw Williams, James Tonks, and Simone Fox

CHAPTER THIRTEEN
The road to transition: a SHARED model

Laura Carroll, Elizabeth Roberts and Gemma Costello

PART III: WHAT DIFFERENCES CAN WE MAKE?

CHAPTER FOURTEEN
Reflections on outcome measurement in child neuropsychological rehabilitation: a child-centred approach

Katie Byard and Sophie Gosling

CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Our children do deserve better

Jenny Jim, Heather Liddiard and Esther Cole

Appendix: Theory-practice links in "Narrative inspired interview with the brain"

Name index

Subject index