Sections
Psychotherapy: Introduction | Psychotherapy With Persons Who Have Brain Injury:
Lingering Doubts | Starting Psychotherapy Sessions | Finding Areas of Mutual Experience | The Purpose of Psychotherapy | The Patient's History Before the Brain Injury | Taking Time to Listen to the Patient's Story | The Problem of Lost Normality After TBI and the Realities
of Life | Practical Considerations and Tactics for the Psychotherapist | Basic Facts About Human Nature With Which Psychotherapists Must
Be Familiar | Special Problems Associated With Brain Injuries | Social Isolation and Loneliness After Moderate to
Severe TBI | Perplexity: Living With Long-Term Cognitive Dysfunction | Conclusion | Key Clinical Points | Recommended Readings | References
Excerpt
The National Institutes of Health's 1999 Consensus
Conference on the rehabilitation of persons with traumatic brain
injury (TBI) concluded that psychotherapy is an important component
of comprehensive rehabilitation. In their published consensus statement,
the following observation was made: "although the use of
psychotherapy has not been studied systematically in persons with
TBI, support for its use comes from demonstrated efficacy for similar
disorders in other populations" (National Institutes of Health 1999, p. 978).