How a Family Intervention Program Can Help After TBI BrainLine

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  BrainLine's webcast "Caregiving and TBI: What You Need to Know" offers ideas and strategies for people caring for a loved one with TBI. Produced by BrainLine.org. View this video in a webcast format. Transcript of this video.
  
• Caregiving and TBI: What You Need to Know
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  BrainLine's webcast "After the Injury: Acute Care and TBI" offers information on the medical care provided following a TBI — from the first moments in an emergency room to the collaboration between the family and medical team to create and individual treatment plan. Produced by BrainLine.org. Transcript of this video. Watch this as a webcast.
• After the Injury: Acute Care and TBI

A brief summary of current research.

A preliminary investigation of the brain injury family intervention: Impact on family members

Kreutzer, JS, Stejskal, TM, Ketchum, JM, Marwitz, JH, Taylor, LA, and Menzel, JC. Brain Injury, Volume 23 (6) June 2009, pp 535-547.

The Brain Injury Family Intervention program consists of five two-hour sessions over 10 weeks and includes discussions of typical effects of brain injury, coping with loss and change, managing stress and intense emotions, effective problem-solving, setting reasonable goals, and taking care of one's self. Following the training, family members indicated a greater number of met needs and felt there were fewer obstacles to receiving services.

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