Traumatic Brain Injury: Caregiver's Guide to Self-Health: Solving Problems and Reducing Stress

A caregiver is one who assists someone who is unable to fully care for him/herself. Caregiving for a loved one is an expression of affection and commitment, but Caregiving can be an emotional roller coaster. Inadequate resources and continuous caring can lead to burn out, exhaustion stress and depression.

This interactive program is designed to offer caregivers 3 techniques to help improve their health and quality of life.

1 - Card Sort
2 - Problem Solving
3 - Stress Relief

Important Direction for Viewing on your Browser

This program is an online slide show presentation with on-screen directions along with sound. Adjust the volume on you computer as needed. You may be prompted to allow ActiveX control to view and hear this interactive program.

You must click the left/right arrow buttons to navigate from page to page;
you will left mouse click on the speaker icons shown at the top left corner of a slide to hear sound;
some Stress Relief sound files are very large so please allow time (up to 5 minutes via broadband connection) to download after you click on the speaker icons;
you will use your mouse to make on screen choices; and
you can quit and return to this program at any time.

View on your Internet Browser.
Caregiver’s Guide to Self-Health: Solving Problems and Reducing Stress. Best viewed using IE

Produced by the University of Alabama at Birmingham Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation and was developed under grant #H133A980010 from the National Institute of Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, U.S. Dept of Education, Washington, DC. Opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the granting agency.

Portions of this program are provided by the Injury Control Research Center (ICRC) and supported by grants from the National Institute on Disability and Rehabilitation Research (#H133N5009 and #H133B980016A), National Institute on Child Health and Human Development (#T32 HD07420), and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention – National Center for Injury Prevention and Control (#R49/CE000191, #R49/CCR403641, and R49/CCR412718-01)