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Survivor’s Handbook
Traumatic Brain Injury Survivor Teaches How To Help Trauma Patients

BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN – Out of her own experiences as brain injury survivor, Nancy Bauser comes up with a step-by-step, methodical guide on how to help trauma patients. Bauser who survived an automobile accident in 1971 developed a systematic approach for facilitators, social workers, psychologists, and rehabilitation personnel on how to help trauma patients, especially those with disabilities and survivors of traumatic brain injuries, rebuild their lives.

Acceptance Groups for Survivors: A Guide for Facilitators is a structured group program for survivors of brain injuries and other disabling physical and mental diseases. Its objectives are to facilitate the process of accepting ones condition, to emphasize the need for support, especially from the family, to stress the importance of learning how to grieve and let go, build social framework of realistic goals and enhance problem-solving skills.

The program is divided into four areas: Dealing With Me Dealing With Others Dealing With Feelings Putting It Together

Included in each area are personal notes explaining her quest to recover. Bauser says she had to relearn how to walk, talk and function independently after the accident. Despite her physical condition she went on to complete her undergraduate degree, and subsequently graduated with a degree in social work. Her work also includes peer counseling and conducting Acceptance Groups with survivors of brain injury and other traumatic disorders at outpatient treatment facilities in southeastern Michigan

Living Through Personal Crisis
By Ann Kaiser Stearns

This book is about the small and large losses that happen to people, experiences that plunge them into a period of adjustment. It is for those who are moving through a mourning process and for those who are struggling with depression and other symptoms of distress, not having realized that they are grieving a loss of some kind.

Published by Ballantine Books. ISBN: 0-345-32293-2

Weight Loss Surgery: Finding the Thin Person Inside You
("The unofficial bible of bypass patients" - The Philadelphia Inquirer.)
By Barbara Thompson (Expert on Overcoming Obesity)

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