Description
Head Space: handbook on brain injury and stroke.
Nearly 100 people a day in New Zealand are affected by brain injury in some form and many are the result of concussion. That represents approximately 40,000 people in a year.
Head Space handbook, revised in 2025 is the premium resource on brain injury and stroke FOR people with a Brain Injury and their friends, whānau/families and supporters.
The most challenging aspect of a brain injury is that it is a hidden injury, depending on the severity, which means that the difficulties experienced by individuals and those around them are not always obvious to the public.
Head Space is a unique handbook designed for people with brain injuries and stroke. The book provides comprehensive explanations and helpful advice for people with brain injury and their whānau and carers. Considerable care has been taken regarding the graphics, font, content, level of detail and overall layout so that readers receive the necessary information in a manner that is understandable and not overwhelming. Claire Freeman and Bernadette Cassidy, the authors of ‘Head Space’, spent over four years’ researching and developing the book through collaboration with the Brain Injury Association (Canterbury/West Coast), staff of the Brain Injury Rehabilitation Service at Burwood Hospital and people who had sustained a brain injury.
When a person is recovering from a brain injury, they and their families/whānau need access to a wide range of information and resources – this handbook is the first step in providing that information. Having the appropriate information about brain injury and the impact it has on a person can help remove the fear and stress associated with it.
