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The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Issues in Development and Rehabilitation pp 215–256Cite as

Psychosocial Consequences of Significant Brain Injury

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This chapter is a clinically driven description, with literature citations and case examples intermingled, that attempts to pull together what is known about the psychosocial consequences of severe brain injury. Hopefully, with this combination of what has been discovered and integrated from past study (e.g., Goldstein, 1942, 1952; Lishman, 1968, 1973; Lezak, 1978; Weddell, Oddy, & Jenkins, 1980; Levin, 1978; Brooks, 1984; Fordyce, Roueche, & Prigatano, 1983; Prigatano, 1985, 1986), and what is continuing to unfold in current work, clinically useful and theoretically stimulating ideas will be found.

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  1. New Medico Rehabilitation and Skilled, Nursing Center of Troy, Troy, New York, USA

    David E. Tupper (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Albany Medical College, Albany, New York, USA

    David E. Tupper (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director of Clinical Services, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  3. The Center for Head Injuries, Johnson Rehabilitation Institute, Edison, New Jersey, USA

    Keith D. Cicerone (Clinical Director) (Clinical Director)

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Pepping, M., Roueche, J.R. (1991). Psychosocial Consequences of Significant Brain Injury. In: Tupper, D.E., Cicerone, K.D. (eds) The Neuropsychology of Everyday Life: Issues in Development and Rehabilitation. Foundations of Neuropsychology, vol 3. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-1511-7_9

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