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When men suffer traumatic brain injury (TBI), they can lose their sense of competence, confidence, and masculinity, resulting in a gender role strain. Brain Injury and Gender Role Strain offers an innovative solution to help such men regain a masculine identity. This important book 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.

Most traumatic brain injury is suffered between...

Simultaneously appearing as Occupational Therapy in Mental Health volume 16, number 3 and 4 (2001), these eight papers reframe the problem of domestic violence, discuss the connection between victim advocacy and occupational therapy, and examine the occupational therapist's role with victims of abus