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Some guidelines for family therapists working with the traumatically brain injured and their families
1Département de Psychologie, Université de Montréal, Québec, Canada.
Brain Injury
|July 1, 1991
Abstract:
A summary is presented of the major sequelae of traumatic brain injury and of the effects of these on the individual and the family. A series of guidelines is offered for use by family therapists when working with this population. The therapists must be directive, informed and informing. At times the therapist is an advocate, a model, a monitor and an agent of generalization.
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