AND SOLUTIONS GUARANTEE A+
✔✔Restorative approach - ✔✔repeated exposure and repetition of stimulation through
experience can change brain's circuitry and reorganization of the brain can occur. Uses
TherEx designed to re-establish or strengthen the specific cog skills or processes
✔✔behavior - ✔✔Anything a person does that can be measured
✔✔most common Axis I disorder for TBI - ✔✔major depressive disorder
✔✔Personality disorder - ✔✔organic personality disorder is the traditional diagnosis for
individuals who develop personality disorders following TBI, exhibiting a change from
the persons preinjury personality
✔✔% of people with TBI have personality disorder - ✔✔23
✔✔Frontal lobe syndrome - ✔✔presents symptoms of other psychiatric disorders
including depression, psychosis, mood disorders, and various other conditions
✔✔Q I - ✔✔low sub; low TBI
hospital
✔✔Q II - ✔✔low sub; high TBI
TBI rehab
✔✔Q III - ✔✔high sub; low TBI
sub tx facility
✔✔Q IV - ✔✔high sub; high TBI
sub + TBI rehab; few places exist
✔✔Tools for SU - ✔✔CAGE, AUDIT, CRAFFT, ASSIST
✔✔Reliability - ✔✔consistency of measurement
Can expect similar results when 2 people administer same test
✔✔Validity - ✔✔The ability of a test to measure what it is intended to measure
✔✔Floor effect - ✔✔assessment is too challenging and everyone receives lowest score
possible
✔✔Ceiling effect - ✔✔assessment is too easy and everyone gets highest score possible
, ✔✔Employment rate after BI - ✔✔<10-40%
✔✔Factors that contribute to poor employment - ✔✔More severe injury, older age at
time of injury, male, lower levels of pre injury educational/occupational status, lack of
social support, significant physical, psycho-social, or cognitive impairments, member of
a minority race, hx substance abuse
✔✔vocational case coordination - ✔✔Early ID of vocation as a goal, early medical +
vocational rehab interventions, work trials, employer edu, temporary work
support,supported employment
✔✔resource facilitation - ✔✔A partnership that helps people and communities choose,
get and keep info, services and supports to make informed choices and meet their goals
Professionals ID as the resource facilitator, resource facilitator meets w the person
every 2 weeks
✔✔Minimal intervention - ✔✔approach that involves min amount of intervention from VR
specialist
High functioning people
✔✔Edu & preparation - ✔✔approach for peeps who appear to need some type of
intervention but not at an intensive or extensive level
✔✔Advocacy level - ✔✔approach is designed to assist a person with TBI who requires
advocacy level services (need assistance to keep the job)
✔✔Workplace supports - ✔✔approach for people with cognitive difficulties that may also
demonstrate social or behavior problems
Highest level of need
✔✔% of TBI has DVT - ✔✔54%
✔✔leading cause of death for TBI - ✔✔DVT
✔✔After TBI individuals are ____ times more likely to die of a seizure disorder as
compared to the general population - ✔✔22x
✔✔RTW ratios for men+women - ✔✔24% of males return to work and 5% of the
females return to work
✔✔% of babies that die from SBS - ✔✔70 to 85%