thoughts & notes
June 14, 2018
What is Compassion Fatigue?
Day in, day out, caregivers struggle to function in environments that constantly present heart wrenching, emotional challenges. Dealing with the safety and well being of the feeble and frail, takes its toll on everyone from full time employee...
June 14, 2018
At the Washington State Traumatic Brain Injury Conference, held May 29th and 30th, 2018 in Tacoma, I presented a workshop on Positive Traumatic Growth and Resilience. The following is the text from my slide presentation that accompanied my talk.
Post traumatic growth: W...
June 3, 2018
This important article was shared by By STEVE BUIST, writer for The Hamilton Spectator, Wed., Aug. 30, 2017
Luciano Minuzzi had finished his very precise and very complicated analyses of brain scans from dozens of retired CFL football players and healthy volunteer subj...
September 29, 2017
The morning of July 21, 2011 was a typical day in Hawaii – warm, sunny, balmy breezes blowing in from the ocean. I said to my husband, “Let’s take the bike up to Hale`iwa and walk around the art festival.” Nothing suggested that a few hours later I would be lying on ho...
September 21, 2017
A TBI IS A DISRUPTION IN BRAIN FUNCTION,
CAUSED BY AN EXTERNAL FORCE TO THE HEAD
FACTS ABOUT TBI:
-
Over 2.5 million TBIs occur in the U.S. annually
-
3.2 – 5.3 million people in the U.S. are currently living with a TBI-related disability
-
70-80% of all TBIs a...
August 17, 2017
The purpose of this research was to explore the experience of returning to work after a traumatic injury. A heuristic phenomenological approach was used to collect and analyze the described lived experiences of this researcher, plus those of eight men and women who hav...
