“Descubriendo Soluciones Juntos”—An argument for adapting problem-solving training for Latinx care partners after traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Conclusions/Implications: Adapting evidence-based problem-solving interventions like PST (“Descubriendo Soluciones Juntos”) to be culturally tailored and culturally sensitive for Spanish-speaking Latinx care partners of adults with TBI could reduce existing health disparities and improve the health, well-being, and quality of life of these care partners. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - January 23, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Understanding domains that influence perceived stigma in individuals with Huntington disease.
Conclusions/Implications: Our findings suggest that perceived stigma is influenced by physical, emotional, and cognitive health, which may be treated with physical therapy, emotional counseling, and cognitive rehabilitation. Application of these therapies may relieve the burden of perceived stigma; however, more research is needed in this area. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - January 20, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
TBI-CareQOL military health care frustration in caregivers of service members/veterans with traumatic brain injury.
Conclusions: The new TBI-CareQOL Military Health Care Frustration measure can be used to examine caregiver perceptions of and experience with the military health care system, to target improvements. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Spirituality and outcomes in caregivers of persons with traumatic brain injury (TBI).
Conclusions/Implications: Interventions that encourage development and maintenance of life purpose and meaning in caregivers of persons with TBI, and less so, spirituality, might have beneficial effects on HRQOL when the person with injury has more functional limitations. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - January 9, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
A systematic review of factors related to employment in transition-age youth with visual impairments.
Conclusions/Implications: These results highlight the need to teach vocational skills, particularly job search skills, to youth with visual impairments and to support their completion of postsecondary education. Because most studies involved secondary analysis of older datasets, and five relied on the same dataset, additional research should be conducted using novel and current datasets in order to replicate and expand on these findings. Research is also needed to identify factors associated with completion of postsecondary education for youth with visual impairments as well as interventions that lead to positive postsecon...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - January 2, 2020 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Can a couples’ intervention reduce unmet needs and caregiver burden after brain injury?
Conclusions: The present investigation provided evidence that, following brain injury, a structured couples intervention can reduce unmet needs and burden in caregivers. Future multicenter research examining long-term durability of treatment gains and specific characteristics of positive responders is warranted. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - December 19, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Measuring personal growth in partners of persons with multiple sclerosis: A new scale.
Conclusions: The dimensionality and structure of personal growth in caregiving partners of persons with MS were delineated in a novel instrument. Future studies should confirm its structure, establish classification criteria, and standardize it as an assessment tool. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - December 19, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
TBI-CareQOL family disruption: Family disruption in caregivers of persons with TBI.
Conclusions: The TBI-CareQOL Family Disruption scale is a brief, reliable, and valid assessment of caregiver perceptions of how caring for an individual with a TBI interferes with family life. This measure is well-suited for inclusion in studies seeking to support family functioning in persons with TBI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - December 16, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Reliability and validity data to support the clinical utility of the Traumatic Brain Injury Caregiver Quality of Life (TBI-CareQOL).
Conclusions: Findings support the reliability and validity of the item banks that comprise the TBI-CareQOL Measurement System. These measures should be considered for any standardized assessment of HRQOL in caregivers of civilians and SMVs with TBI. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - December 12, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Measuring emotional suppression in caregivers of adults with traumatic brain injury.
Conclusions: The new TBI-CareQOL Emotional Suppression CAT and 6-item short form is the first self-report measure of this construct in this population. Our findings suggest this new measure has strong psychometric properties. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2020 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - October 3, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Pilot intervention to promote tolerance for uncertainty in early multiple sclerosis.
Conclusions/Implications: These pilot results demonstrate that IU is responsive to a brief psychological intervention, and improvement with IU is associated with positive psychological outcomes. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - June 24, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Associations among decisional autonomy, fatigue, pain, and well-being in long-term physical disability.
Conclusions: The findings indicate that levels of decisional autonomy may be important to QoL in individuals aging with physical limitations. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 29, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Factors associated with high functioning despite distress in post-9/11 veterans.
Conclusions: These findings support the importance of identifying factors that can facilitate higher social, occupational, and general functional capacity for those with high levels of PTSD symptomatology. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 15, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Consequences of perceived personal and group discrimination against people with physical disabilities.
Conclusion: This research makes two main contributions. From a theoretical perspective we found that perceived personal and group discrimination influence self-esteem through different paths. From an applied point of view, our results may contribute to the design of interventions to enhance the quality of life of people with physical disabilities. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2019 APA, all rights reserved) (Source: Rehabilitation Psychology)
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 15, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
Diversity and social justice in disability: The heart and soul of rehabilitation psychology.
This article introduces a special issue of Rehabilitation Psychology on diversity and social justice in disability research. The 13 articles in this special issue coalesce around the 3 themes of (a) critical disability identity theory, (b) discrimination and prejudice, and (c) health disparities in the context of disability. This article introduces each of these articles and draws upon the work contained in this special issue to highlight important future directions for research on diversity and social justice in disability across the following areas: (a) nondisabled privilege, (b) rehabilitation versus cure versus adjustm...
Source: Rehabilitation Psychology - April 15, 2019 Category: Rehabilitation Source Type: research
