Severe and Profound Brain Injury: A Clinician’s Guide to Complex Neuro-Disability

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Sonja Soeterik Sal Connolly

Severe and Profound Brain Injury

A Clinician’s Guide to Complex Neuro-Disability

Sonja Soeterik, Sal Connolly, Sarah Crawford

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Routledge
13 October 2025

Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology; Neurology & clinical neurophysiology; Speech & language disorders & therapy; Occupational therapy; Rehabilitation

Severe and Profound Brain Injury is a comprehensive guide offering clinicians practical tools, techniques, and ways to structure thinking in approaching how to best assess and provide neurorehabilitation to patients with the most overwhelming and complex neuro-disability. Advances in acute care will lead to increasing numbers of people surviving with complex neuro-disability and more families will be challenged by a confusing and devastating form of loss. Most clinicians will not have encountered this level of impairment in clinical practice and can feel deskilled, challenged by how best to help, and overpowered by the questions it raises.

This book proposes a paradigm shift in how to assess and formulate the cognitive, behavioural, and emotional difficulties in complex neuro-disability. The task for clinicians is to look for ability in the face of global impairment, rather than focus on areas of disability. Practical advice is provided on how to approach thinking about the issues and design bespoke, person-centred assessments from first principles with robust methodology. Prolonged disorders of consciousness and locked in syndrome are discussed in detail. Guidance is given to keeping the person at the centre of decision-making and intervention planning, particularly as so many will lack mental capacity and require best interests’ decisions to be made on their behalf.

This is essential reading for established clinicians wanting to develop expertise working with these patients and their families, clinical psychologists, neuropsychologists, other health professionals, students, and trainees.

By: Sonja Soeterik, Sal Connolly, Sarah Crawford
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 350g
ISBN: 9781032665931
ISBN 10: 1032665939
Pages: 182
Publication Date: 13 October 2025
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sonja Soeterik is a consultant clinical psychologist (UK) and a registered clinical neuropsychologist (NZ). She has led specialist complex neuro-disability services both in the community and inpatient settings. Her interests include working with so-called hard to assess people and complex mental capacity decision-making. Sal Connolly is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist who has led and developed specialist services in nationally and internationally recognised centres for people with brain injury. Her interests include working with the teams around people with complex neuro-disability including their children, families, and multi-professional teams. Sarah Crawford is a consultant clinical neuropsychologist and is currently the Professional Lead for Clinical Psychology and the Lead Clinician for mental capacity at the Royal Hospital for Neuro-disability. Her research interests include mood, cognition, and communication in severe and profound brain injury.