Behavioral and social interventions for individuals with traumatic brain injury: a summary of the research with clinical implications.

Specialists in communication disorders who work with individuals who have traumatic brain injury (TBI) often focus their rehabilitative efforts on the cognitive, social, and behavioral dimensions of disability. These domains of functioning are included in the scope of practice of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association because of their close associations with communication effectiveness. This article summarizes relevant research findings and clinical perspectives in the areas of intervention for disorders of behavioral self-regulation and social-interactive competence after TBI. This clinical summary is associated with a systematic evidence review sponsored by the TBI Practice Guidelines Group of the Academy of Neurologic Communication Disorders and Sciences (ANCDS).

[1]  S. McDonald,et al.  Training communication partners of people with traumatic brain injury: A randomised controlled trial , 2004 .

[2]  M. Ylvisaker,et al.  Choice and routine: Antecedent behavioral interventions for adolescents with severe traumatic brain injury , 1995 .

[3]  D. Stuss,et al.  The Frontal Lobes , 1986 .

[4]  Hanna Damasio,et al.  Impairment of social and moral behavior related to early damage in human prefrontal cortex , 1999, Nature Neuroscience.

[5]  J. Donders.  Students with Acquired Brain Injury: The School??s Response , 1997 .

[6]  S. Stage,et al.  A Meta-Analysis of Interventions To Decrease Disruptive Classroom Behavior in Public Education Settings. , 1997 .

[7]  Kenneth H. Rubin,et al.  Peer Interactions, Relationships, and Groups , 2007 .

[8]  Frontal lobe dysfunction following closed head injury in children: Findings from neuropsychology and brain imaging. , 1997 .

[9]  L. Turkstra,et al.  Theory of Mind and social beliefs in adolescents with traumatic brain injury. , 2004, NeuroRehabilitation.

[10]  M. Ylvisaker,et al.  Positive Supports for People Who Experience Behavioral and Cognitive Disability After Brain Injury: A Review , 2003, The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation.

[11]  M. Ylvisaker,et al.  Reconstruction of Identity After Brain Injury , 2000, Brain Impairment.

[12]  Robert H. Horner,et al.  Interpreting Outcomes of Social Skills Training for Students with High-Incidence Disabilities , 2001 .

[13]  E. Kendall,et al.  Psychosocial adjustment following closed head injury : a model for understanding individual differences and predicting outcome , 1996 .

[14]  N. Alderman.  Contemporary approaches to the management of irritability and aggression following traumatic brain injury , 2003, Neuropsychological rehabilitation.

[15]  S. Aeschleman,et al.  Stress Inoculation Training For Impulsive Behaviors In Adults With Traumatic Brain Injury , 1999 .

[16]  M. Schlund.  Effects of acquired brain injury on adaptive choice and the role of reduced sensitivity to contingencies , 2002, Brain injury.

[17]  David H. Williams,et al.  The contribution of frontal lobe lesions to the neurobehavioral outcome of closed head injury. , 1991 .

[18]  M. Ylvisaker,et al.  Context-Sensitive Behavioral Supports for Young Children with TBI: Short-Term Effects and Long-Term Outcome , 2003, The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation.

[19]  S. Wade,et al.  Putting the Pieces Together: Preliminary Efficacy of a Family Problem‐Solving Intervention for Children With Traumatic Brain Injury , 2006, The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation.

[20]  R. Barkley.  Adolescents with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: An Overview of Empirically Based Treatments , 2004, Journal of psychiatric practice.

[21]  M. Lezak.  Psychological implications of traumatic brain damage for the patient's family. , 1986 .

[22]  L. Turkstra.  Should my shirt be tucked in or left out? The communication context of adolescence , 2000 .

[23]  Keith Owen Yeates,et al.  A prospective study of short- and long-term outcomes after traumatic brain injury in children: behavior and achievement. , 2002, Neuropsychology.

[24]  G. Kinsella,et al.  Psychological Distress and Family Satisfaction Following Traumatic Brain Injury: Injured Individuals and Their Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Carers , 2000, The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation.

[25]  R. Tate.  "It Is not only the Kind of Injury that Matters, but the Kind of Head": The Contribution of Premorbid Psychosocial Factors to Rehabilitation Outcomes after Severe Traumatic Brain Injury , 1998 .

[26]  D. Robin,et al.  Cognitive outcome in children and adolescents following severe traumatic brain injury: Influence of psychosocial, psychiatric, and injury-related variables , 1999, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society.

[27]  Keith Owen Yeates,et al.  Long-term behavior problems following pediatric traumatic brain injury: prevalence, predictors, and correlates. , 2003, Journal of pediatric psychology.

[28]  J. Giacino,et al.  Evidence-based cognitive rehabilitation: recommendations for clinical practice. , 2000, Archives of physical medicine and rehabilitation.

[29]  G. Broe,et al.  Psychosocial adjustment after traumatic brain injury: what are the important variables? , 1999, Psychological Medicine.

[30]  A. Damasio,et al.  Individuals with sociopathic behavior caused by frontal damage fail to respond autonomically to social stimuli , 1990, Behavioural Brain Research.

[31]  Z. Groswasser,et al.  Survivors of severe traumatic brain injury in childhood. II. Late residual disability. , 1985, Scandinavian journal of rehabilitation medicine. Supplement.

[32]  A. Benton,et al.  Frontal Lobe Function and Dysfunction , 1991 .

[33]  D. Stuss,et al.  The frontal lobes are necessary for 'theory of mind'. , 2001, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[34]  Wilbur L. Smith,et al.  Traumatic brain injury in children and adolescents: psychiatric disorders at two years. , 1997, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

[35]  Sandra E. Black,et al.  Training volunteers as conversation partners using "Supported Conversation for Adults with Aphasia" (SCA): a controlled trial. , 2001, Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR.

[36]  Daniel Tranel,et al.  Asymmetric Functional Roles of Right and Left Ventromedial Prefrontal Cortices in Social Conduct, Decision-Making, and Emotional Processing , 2002, Cortex.

[37]  S. McDonald.  Are You Crying or Laughing? Emotion Recognition Deficits After Severe Traumatic Brain Injury , 2005, Brain Impairment.

[38]  J. Sleigh,et al.  Neuropsychological functioning during the year following severe traumatic brain injury , 2001, Brain injury.

[39]  Dennis Helffenstein,et al.  The use of interpersonal process recall (IPR) in the remediation of interpersonal and communication skill deficits in the newly brain-injured. , 1982 .

[40]  P. Minnes,et al.  Stability of functional outcomes following transitional living programme participation: 3-year follow-up. , 1994, Brain injury.

[41]  D. Stuss,et al.  Humour appreciation: a role of the right frontal lobe. , 1999, Brain : a journal of neurology.

[42]  The psychiatric sequelae of head injury: a review. , 1973, Psychological medicine.

[43]  P J Donovick,et al.  Traumatic brain injury (TBI) 10-20 years later: a comprehensive outcome study of psychiatric symptomatology, cognitive abilities and psychosocial functioning. , 2001, Brain injury.

[44]  W. McKinlay,et al.  The effects of severe head injury on patient and relative within seven years of injury. , 1987 .

[45]  E. Rolls.  The orbitofrontal cortex and reward. , 2000, Cerebral cortex.

[46]  R. Tate,et al.  Evaluation of an Anger Management Therapy Programme Following Acquired Brain Injury: A Preliminary Study , 2000 .

[47]  G. Barba,et al.  Memory, Consciousness, and the Brain , 2000, Brain and Cognition.

[48]  D. N. Ripich,et al.  Training Alzheimer's Disease Caregivers for Successful Communication , 2000 .

[49]  L. Turkstra,et al.  Social Information Processing in Adolescents: Data from Normally Developing Adolescents and Preliminary Data from Their Peers with Traumatic Brain Injury , 2001, The Journal of head trauma rehabilitation.

[50]  Psychosocial and emotional sequelae of individuals with traumatic brain injury: a literature review and recommendations. , 1995 .

[51]  G. Fricchione.  Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain , 1995 .