Dr. Cathy Catroppa is an educational and developmental psychologist, a Research Fellow of the Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI), Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) in Melbourne, Australia, and Associate Professor in the Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne. Dr Catroppa's work has focused on the coordination of a large scale research program examining acute and long-term term outcomes following pediatric TBI. Dr Catroppa has now also placed an emphasis on developing and piloting intervention programs aimed to prevent and/or reduce impairments post-pediatric TBI. She has over 70 publications in peer reviewed journals.
This volume provides an evidence base for clinical practice specific to traumatic brain injury (TBI) sustained during childhood, using a biological-psychosocial conceptual framework. Unlike previous... (more)