Findings indicate that family perceptions and family functioning are important determinants of therapeutic alliance for patients in PABIR. These results indicate that therapists in PABIR programmes should address family perceptions and functioning to facilitate patient bonding with the programme.

Despite the precision added by quantitative CT analysis, CT findings did not improve on demographic factors and TFC in predicting early cognitive outcome of TBI. Imaging methods that are more sensitive to white matter integrity may be needed to develop pathophysiologic predictors of TBI outcome.