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The trauma of brain injury affects many people besides the injured
one, and this book offers hope to all of them. A guide to
psychological recovery after the loss and upheaval that follow such
an event, this book is full of new ideas and experience --
something many survivors and their caregivers have run out of. In
clear language and with easy-to-follow exercises, the authors lead
the reader through the four stages of psychological recovery:
becoming more self-aware, recovering emotionally, thinking in new
ways, and changing behaviour.
"All that have ever tried to impose change in their organization
will immediately recognize and truly value the in-depth knowledge
and experience captured in this book. It contains a collection of
eye-openers that is a treasure chest for pioneers of new
organizational ideas, A fantastic toolbox for use in future
missions!" -Lise B. Hvatum, product development manager,
Schlumberger "If you have need of changing your organization, and
especially of introducing new techniques, then you want to
understand what is in this book. It will help you avoid common
pitfalls that doom many such projects and will show you a clear
path to success. The techniques are derived from the experience of
many individuals and organizations. Many are also fun to apply.
This stuff is really cool-and really hot." -Joseph Bergin,
professor of computer science, Pace University, New York "If change
is the only guarantee in life, why is it so hard to do? As this
book points out, people are not so much resistant to change itself
as they are to being changed. Mary Lynn and Linda have successfully
used the pattern form to capture and present the recurring lessons
of successful change efforts and have placed a powerful knowledge
resource in the hands of their readers." -Alan O'Callaghan,
researcher, Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort
University, United Kingdom "The most difficult part of absorbing
patterns, or any technology, into an organization is overcoming the
people issues. The patterns in this book are the documentation of
having gone through that experience, giving those that dare push
the envelope a head start at success."-David E. DeLano, IBM
Pervasive Computing "If you have ever wondered how you could
possibly foster any cultural changes in your organization, in this
book you will find a lot of concrete advice for doing so. I
recommend that everyone read this book who has a vast interest in
keeping his or her organization flexible and open for cultural
change." -Jutta Eckstein, Independent Consultant, Objects In Action
Author of Agile Software Development in the Large 48 Patterns for
Driving and Sustaining Change in Your Organization Change. It's
brutally tough to initiate, even harder to sustain. It takes too
long. People resist it. But without it, organizations lose their
competitive edge. Fortunately, you can succeed at making change. In
Fearless Change, Mary Lynn Manns and Linda Rising illuminate 48
proven techniques, or patterns, for implementing change in
organizations or teams of all sizes, and show you exactly how to
use them successfully. Find out how to Understand the forces in
your organization that drive and retard change Plant the seeds of
change Drive participation and buy-in, from start to finish Choose
an "official skeptic" to sharpen your thinking Make your changes
appear less threatening Find the right timing and the best teaching
moments Sustain your momentum Overcome adversity and celebrate
success Inspired by the "pattern languages" that are transforming
fields from software to architecture, the authors illuminate
patterns for every stage of the change process: knowledge,
persuasion, decision, implementation, and confirmation. These
flexible patterns draw on the experiences of hundreds of leaders.
They offer powerful insight into change-agent behavior,
organizational culture, and the roles of every participant. Best of
all, they're easy to use-and they work!
This collection of patterns proposes some successful techniques to
assist with teaching and learning, especially of technical
subjects. For professional educators, these patterns may seem
obvious, even trivial, because they have used them so often. But
for those newer to teaching, they offer a way to obtain the deep
knowledge of experienced teachers. Patterns are not step-by-step
recipes. Each of these offers a format and a process for
transferring knowledge that can then be used by a variety of
different teachers in many different ways. While most of the
authors are involved in some aspect of computing and informatics,
and so the examples are mostly drawn from those fields, much of the
advice is general enough to be applied to other disciplines. The
advice is not restricted to formal education, but has been used in
various training scenarios as well. Most educators and trainers are
not taught how to teach. Rather, they often find themselves
teaching by accident. Typically, a person with a skill that is in
demand, such as a particular programming language, will be asked to
teach it. People assume that if the person is good in this
programming language, she will be good at teaching it. But knowing
the subject matter is very different from knowing how to teach it.
Effectively communicating complex technologies is often a struggle
for information technology instructors. They may try various
teaching strategies, but this trial and error process can be
time-consuming and fraught with error. Advice is often sought from
other expert instructors, but these individuals are not always
readily available. This creates the need to find other ways to
facilitate the sharing of teaching techniques between expert and
novice teachers.This is the goal of the Pedagogical Patterns
Project. Pedagogy is a term that refers to the systematized
learning or instruction concerning principles and methods of
teaching. Patterns provide a method for capturing and communicating
the deep knowledge in a field. As an example, imagine that you are
looking for an effective way to teach message passing to
experienced programmers in a weeklong industry course. A friend who
is teaching a semester-long object technology course to traditional
age university students has found an effective technique. He shares
it with you without dictating the specific implementation details.
This allows you to use your own creativity to implement the
technique in a way that is most comfortable for you and most useful
for your industry students. This is the essence of patterns: to
offer a format and a process for sharing successful practices in a
way that allows each practice to be used by a variety of people in
many different ways.This pattern language contains patterns from
the Pedagogical Patterns effort, which has been ongoing for over
ten years. They have been revised and rewritten in Alexandrian form
in order to support the integration into a pattern language. The
currently available patterns focus on a classroom situation at
beginners to advanced level. The editors and authors are a mix of
industrial trainers and university educators with a wealth of
experience. Some teach small groups face to face and others teach
huge courses delivered over the internet. Everything here is useful
for secondary education onwards. The patterns in this pattern
language use a form similar to the one used by Christopher
Alexander in his book A Pattern Language. This book introduced
patterns to the world of architecture, from whence it has spread
throughout the computing and educational disciplines.
This small edition of 'After Brain Injury' is filled with ongoing
recovery reminders and has been created specifically for the person
who has been brain injured.
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