Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain

One of the most neglected aftereffects of brain injury is gender role strain. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain 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. This book describes the specialized intervention method that helped them recreate their adult male roles and facilitated greater feelings of competency, personal life control, and normalcy in their personal lives and in the larger community setting. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain offers timely and important information for health care professionals and family members of individuals with long-term brain injury. This is also an inspiring book for anyone with a brain injury who is struggling to rebuild a life as a competent adult.

Sharon A. Gutman

Contents - 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 Effectiveness - Epilogue: My Final Thoughts - References - Index