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Recommended reading

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This section describes a range of books and factsheets that you may find interesting or helpful.

  • It includes suggestions made by the SIA Librarian and other healthcare professionals.
  • Many of these books can be obtained through Amazon Books www.amazon.co.uk

General reading
Factsheets
Dealing with anxiety
Relaxation
Relationships
Teenage reading
General reading

Moving Forward: the guide to living with spinal cord injury
Published by SIA in 2008.

A Guide for Living, Spinal Cord Injury
By Palmer S. et al Published by The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 2008

This book combines first-person accounts with up-to-date medical information to address all aspects of SCI, including recovering and coping, sex and family matters, transportation and housing, employment and leisure.

Spinal Cord Injury and the Family: A New Guide
By Alpert, M. J., et al. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2008 ISBN -10: 0-674-02715-9.

The book talks about the every-day life, and the practical and emotional consequences of living with SCI.

Spinal Cord Injury: A Guide for Patients and Families
By Selzer, Michael et al. (American Academy of Neurology) Published by Demos Medical Publishing, 2008. ISBN-13:978-1-932603-38-5

The spinal cord is an extremely vital part of the central nervous system, and even a small injury to it can lead to severe disability…

Factsheets

The SIA Advice Line team produces a range of factsheets that cover all aspects of spinal cord injury. These are available to download from the website www.spinal.co.uk

A list of titles is shown below:

  • A Brief Guide to DDA
  • Applying to Grant Making Trusts
  • Applying to Personal Injury Trusts
  • Autonomic Dysreflexia
  • Bladder Management
  • Bowel Management
  • Buying and Selling Second-hand equipment
  • Cervical Smear Tests
  • Charging for Community Care services
  • Community Care for Children with a Spinal Cord Injury
  • Diet and Exercise
  • Emotional Support
  • Employment
  • Fertility and Fatherhood
  • Hiring Aids and Equipment in the UK and abroad
  • How To Make A Claim Under The DDA
  • Independent Living – finding and working with Personal Assistants
  • Insurance
  • Motherhood
  • Overseas Organisations
  • Pain Management
  • Pressure Care
  • Reduced VAT For Disabled People
  • Spinal Cord Injury Centres
  • Spinal Cord Injury Reading List
  • Sport and Leisure
  • Useful Disability Websites
  • Women’s Health
  • Welfare and Benefits

Dealing with anxiety

An Introduction to Coping with Anxiety
by Leonora Brosnan and Brenda Hogan.
Published by Constable & Robinson Ltd. ISBN 978-1-84529-278-2

“Offers valuable guidance for those seeking help for emotional or psychological problems such as depression and anxiety”.
“How to Cope Successfully with Anxiety and Depression”
by Beth McEoin

Relaxation

Relaxation and Stress Reduction Workshop
by Martha Davis and Elizabeth Robbins Eshelman.
“This book is a wonderful source companion for anyone seeking to find effective ways of dealing with stress and the mental and/or physical pain that it can cause”.
Ultimate Relaxation tape
by Dr Hilary Jones
“It’s easy to follow, he has a very calm voice and it’s very relaxing! It’s so easy to follow you don’t have to listen to it every time you want to relax – you simply remember what he said! Helped me loads! Anyone suffering from stress, anxiety, lack of sleep or simply wanting to relax”
Manage Your Mind: A Mental Fitness Guide
by Gillian Butler and Tony Hope.
Published by Oxford University Press, 2004 ISBN: 0 19 262 3834
Includes learning how to relax, the importance of relationships, getting the better of stress and anxiety.
Relaxation: Exercises and Inspiration for Well-Being
by Dr Sarah Brewer Duncan Baird
Publishers 2003, ISBN 1-904292-07-0
The Department of Clinical Psychology at Stoke Mandeville Hospital offers anAutohypnotic Relation tape, including ‘Sounds of the Sea’ produced by Professor Paul Kennedy, Clinical Psychologist.
This CD is available to patients and relatives within the NSIC at Stoke Mandeville Hospital.

Relationships

Relate: Stop Arguing, Start Talking
by Susan Quilliam ISBN 9780091856694.

“The book includes useful advice not just for the couples directly involved but for those which it (insightfully) recognises are likely to be closely affected by a couple in conflict – most notably any children in the relationship”.

“This provides a really helpful insight, as it encourages you to understand why your partner is reacting in a certain way rather than just taking his or her anger or aggression at face value and reacting to it in kind”

 

Loving Yourself, Loving Another: The importance of Self-Esteem for Successful Relationships
by Julia Cole
Published by Vermillion ISBN 9780091856762

“A great book if you feel unloved or not listened to, if you have low self esteem and blame yourself for all the problems or feel you are taking all the blame”

Teenage reading

Get Out of My Life: But First take Me and Alex into Town
by Wolfe, Tony et al.
Published by Profile Books Ltd., ISBN 978 1 84668 087 8

 

“It has put my mind to rest on a lot of teenage behavioural issues. You might not be able to change your teenager’s behaviour after reading this book, but at least you’ll be able to deal with it in your head and you won’t feel so frustrated anymore”.

How to talk so teens will listen and listen so teens will talk back
by Adele Faber
Published by Piccadilly Press Ltd., 2006.

“This book should be mailed to every parent, it is worth its weight in gold”.

The 7 habits of highly effective teens
by Sean Covey

“This book is possibly the best book I have ever read and makes complete sense to me and my teenage brain”.

Wha’ever, The Teenager’s guide to Spinal Cord Injury
by Meg Harper
Published by the Spinal Injuries Association.

Available free to all teenagers with a spinal cord injury or similar disability.