Social adjustment and interaction after severe head injury

Newton, A. Taylor; Johnson, David A.

doi:10.1111/j.2044-8260.1985.tb00655.x

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“…Using a variety of measures of behavioural and cognitive function, chosen on the basis of their reported utility -in the appropriate fields 14 (Table 1), we examined a group of 11 severely head-injured young adults who were currently attending an occupational therapy day centre for the physically handicapped. Patient group details are summarized in Table 2.…”

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HIPSIG: A Basis for Social Adjustment after Head Injury

Johnson

Newton

1987

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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Psychosocial adjustment is a major factor in morbidity from severe head injury, but there have been no reported attempts to remedy problems within this area. Detailed examination of 11 severely head-injured patients attending an occupational therapy day centre suggests that high social anxiety, poor social performance and low self-esteem are important contributory factors to the poor overall social adjustment. Using existing methods from social skills training, the authors tried to remedy those specific problem areas in social interaction. The group results after one year were not statistically significant, but the authors suggest that their approach may be a useful starting point from which occupational therapists can develop similar, more effective rehabilitative programmes. 47

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HIPSIG: A Basis for Social Adjustment after Head Injury

Johnson

Newton

1987

British Journal of Occupational Therapy

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“…Overall, research indicates that affective and emotional symptoms, including anxiety and depression, are commonly observed sequelae among head-injured individuals [16,[26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34]. However, prevalence estimates of affective symptoms have varied widely among studies.…”

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Psychological and marital adjustment in couples following a traumatic brain injury (TBI): A critical review

Blais

Boisvert

2005

Brain Injury

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The first part of this paper examines current data describing the psychological and marital adjustment of couples following a traumatic brain injury (TBI). Although these findings reveal some discrepancies, they highlight that adjustment following a TBI represents a genuine challenge for those involved in the process. The second part moves toward the examination of factors associated with psychological and marital adjustment in both couple partners. Here again, there exists a large diversity in empirical data and theoretical models informing this emerging area of interest. Nevertheless, cognitive variables such as coping skills are commonly seen as critical variables to explain the adjustment level in people with TBI and their spouse/caregivers. Concurrently with the discussion of the methodological issues and pitfalls encountered in this area of research, the conclusion provides suggestions of further steps to undertake in this endeavour toward a better understanding of the adjustment process following TBI.

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“…[36][37][38][39] Basically, the Theory theory approach posits that normal people can read another person's mind by acquiring and deploying a commonsense ToM, something very similar to a scientific theory. [41][42][43] Patients' difficulty in flexibly changing their point of view could affect their ability to interpret and manage social interactions. In contrast, according to the Simulation theory, attributors use their mental mechanisms to calculate and predict the mental processes of others.…”

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Low Self-Awareness of Individuals With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Can Lead to Reduced Ability to Take Another Person's Perspective

Bivona¹,

Riccio²,

Ciurli³

et al. 2014

Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation

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Aims of this study were (i) to verify whether a deficit or a lack of self-awareness can lead to difficulties in assuming another person's perspective after a severe traumatic brain injury (TBI); (ii) to verify whether perspective-taking deficits emerge more from performance-based tasks than self-reports; and (iii) to evaluate the possible relationships between perspective-taking difficulties and some clinical, neuropsychological, neuropsychiatric, and neuroimaging variables. The Interpersonal Reactivity Index, Empathy Quotient, first-order false-belief, and faux pas written stories were administered to 28 patients with severe TBI and 28 healthy controls. The Awareness Questionnaire was also administered to TBI patients and their caregivers. Patients were split into 2 groups (impaired self-awareness vs adequate self-awareness) on the basis of the discrepancy Awareness Questionnaire score. Both TBI groups obtained lower scores than healthy controls on the Fantasy subscale of the Interpersonal Reactivity Index, the reality question of the false-belief stories, and the memory questions of the faux pas test. Only impaired self-awareness patients tended to obtain lower scores in first-order false-belief detection. Impaired self-awareness patients also performed significantly worse than both healthy controls and adequate self-awareness patients on the faux pas tasks. The analysis suggests a causal relationship between low self-awareness and perspective-taking difficulties in this population of patients.

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Social adjustment and interaction after severe head injury

Cited by 57 publications

References 14 publications

HIPSIG: A Basis for Social Adjustment after Head Injury

HIPSIG: A Basis for Social Adjustment after Head Injury

Psychological and marital adjustment in couples following a traumatic brain injury (TBI): A critical review

Low Self-Awareness of Individuals With Severe Traumatic Brain Injury Can Lead to Reduced Ability to Take Another Person's Perspective

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