Psychosocial Process Journal

Tiffanie A. Brashear, PA, and Diana H. Rintala, PhD
Abstract
Background/Objective: Service dogs are trained to help individuals with disabilities maximize function and enhance social participation. This pilot study obtained an estimate of the proportion of veterans with spinal cord injuries (SCI) receiving care from a Veterans Affairs Medical Center who were interested in information about, […]

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 […]

Robin Dannevik, MSW
    Mr. Chavez* fell down a flight of stairs in his home last year. The accident left him quadriplegic. He spent the next several months in rehabilitation centers and nursing homes before coming to the Spinal Cord Injury unit at the Edward Hines Veterans Affairs Medical Center for further acute rehabilitation. Mr. Chavez is […]

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 […]

Deborah Blanchard, ACSW, LCSW
    I recently retired from my job with the State of Louisiana. At about the same time, I also fell and wound up with both a tibia plateau and a femur fracture and have been basically home-bound. The highlight of my morning has been the newspaper and the Ellen Degeneres Show […]

The following are brief descriptions of a variety of useful organizations, including website information. If there are other organizations you would like to bring to the attention of AASCIPSW membership, please inform Jayne Kleinman, jjk1009@hotmail.com 203-631-4800.
The Abilities Expopresents expositions around the country in various locations, showing independent and assisted living products and services dedicated […]

Eva Miller
Natural disasters have been relatively common across America since its inception, yet after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001, and in 2005, Hurricane Katrina, Americans have begun to realize that none of us are exempt from the possibility of having to face catastrophic disasters. […]

Jeff Canar, PhD
     The importance of understanding uncertainty in illness as a predictor of psychological discomfort, an awareness of the unpredictability of certain illnesses, and the relationship between that uncertainty and emotional toll of coping with the illness is an important framework when working with individuals diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. There is a considerable degree […]

     Mather LifeWays, based in Evanston, Illinois, and founded in 1941 by entrepreneur and humanitarian Alonzo Mather, is committed to providing a continuum of living and care; making neighborhoods better places for older adults to live, work, learn, contribute, and play; and identifying, implementing, and sharing best practices for wellness, workforce issues, memory care support, […]