Chapter 42.Family Intervention
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Families play an important role in meeting the long-term needs of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI), and optimal family functioning facilitates recovery. However, family functioning and the emotional well-being of individual family members are often compromised in the context of brain injury. The earliest literature on families after brain injury focused on the effect on the family, particularly the effect on caregivers (Lezak 1978; Mauss-Clum and Ryan 1981). Early literature also delineated family needs and therapy formats (e.g., group therapy, marital therapy). Clinicians and clinical researchers need more than descriptions of family problems. We focus on principles of family intervention and practical strategies that rehabilitation professionals can use to heal families, strengthen their positive attributes, and prevent disintegration.
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