PSYC33H3 Chapter 6a: Positive Supports for People Who Experience Behavioral and Cognitive Disability After Brain Injury
Document Summary
Positive supports for people who experience behavioral and cognitive disability. Review literature on behavioral intervention and cognitive rehabilitation and history, principles, assessment and treatment procedures associated with context- sensitive, support-oriented approaches to behavioral and cognitive intervention. Personality changes, increasing challenging behavior are common after severe tbi in children and adults. Poor controlled behavior and problematic social interaction linked to difficulty in family reintegration and educational, vocational, social, and avocational pursuits. Possible factors to ineffective social reintegration may include pre-injury problems with behavioral adaption, deficits tied to injury, and hard-to- predict evolution of post-injury reactions. Frequent linked directly to injury are 2 classical frontolimbic behavior syndrome (pseudopsychopathic and pseudodepressed personalities) Pbs focuses on enhancing individuals" quality of life by teaching useful and effective behaviors + redesigning environments so person can achieve goals effectively and consistent with needs of others. Pbs has roots in aba; use of antecedent-behavior-consequence.
