Treatment for an individual with a traumatic brain injury requires a holistic approach to the patient’s individual needs. The factors to take into consideration for a proper treatment plan require knowing the patient’s type of injury, cognitive abilities, and social activities. The patient might have cognitive deficits where they struggle with attention, reasoning, problem solving, and sequencing. In contrast, the patient might struggle with social situations where they might have trouble coping with distractions in their social environments. Treatment goals should be carefully thought through to improve the areas that the patient needs. In this paper, I will address two therapy activities that could benefit a patient with their cognitive abilities and social abilities.
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This can be highly variable and even minor traumatic brain injuries can cause the patient to not be able to go back to work, school, or any other outside activities. If a patient needs rehabilitation make sure to build strategies for them to slowly work into those situations. As a Speech-Language Pathologist assistant remember to understand and empathize with the client’s social knowledge and prepare a prioritize target skills to meet their needs. Overall, this treatment will focus on educating and training the patient as well as building a social support system for their loved ones. The patient will ideally reach their highest level of communication in everyday life to increase their quality of life. The patient will need self-monitoring skills on their performance and role-playing can help them practice these difficult social interactions (Youse, 2002). You will need to work in conjunction with their family to understand their home environment. This can be done by asking the family questions and give them clear throughout demonstrations on how to help their loved one with the traumatic brain
This can be highly variable and even minor traumatic brain injuries can cause the patient to not be able to go back to work, school, or any other outside activities. If a patient needs rehabilitation make sure to build strategies for them to slowly work into those situations. As a Speech-Language Pathologist assistant remember to understand and empathize with the client’s social knowledge and prepare a prioritize target skills to meet their needs. Overall, this treatment will focus on educating and training the patient as well as building a social support system for their loved ones. The patient will ideally reach their highest level of communication in everyday life to increase their quality of life. The patient will need self-monitoring skills on their performance and role-playing can help them practice these difficult social interactions (Youse, 2002). You will need to work in conjunction with their family to understand their home environment. This can be done by asking the family questions and give them clear throughout demonstrations on how to help their loved one with the traumatic brain