Psychosocial Process Journal

Pat Dorsett, MD and Patricia Fronek, BSW
Abstract
    Social workers and psychologists can play an important role within the wider interdisciplinary team by ensuring contemporary research findings are translated into daily practice. Despite shifts in knowledge found in contemporary literature, new understandings are not always translated into daily practice. Health care professionals tend to anticipate […]

John W. DenBoer, MA and Sigmund Hough, PhD, ABPP
Abstract
     This case study explored the challenge of using verbal feedback with an individual following simultaneous with spinal cord injury and traumatic brain injury (SCI/TBI) with visual impairment. A man in his late 20’s received a severe open head injury and T5 ASIA B ischemic spinal […]

Ann Marie Warren, PhD, and Timothy R. Elliott, PhD
     Individuals who incur a spinal cord injury (SCI) face immediate, profound, and often permanent life changes. The enormity of the SCI, however, often dominates the clinical picture, and when concomitant impairments such as traumatic brain injury (TBI) occur they are often overlooked. This […]

Erin Dehon, BS; and Samuel T. Gontkovsky, PsyD
     Pain is a significant complication for a large percentage of individuals with spinal cord injury and disorders (SCI/D). In its acute form, pain often serves a protective function, acting as a signal to prevent further damage and consequently to expedite healing. In some instances, pain persists […]