Returning individuals with mild to moderate brain injury back to work: A systematic client centered approach
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Date
2014
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InTech publishers
Abstract
An increase in the numbers of individuals who sustained brain injuries due to motor
vehicle accidents, trauma induced by violence and substance abuse, has resulted in more
disabled individuals becoming non-productive members in society and inactive in the
workplace. Research in the field of brain injury rehabilitation internationally is limited, with
the majority of research focusing on the medical model of intervention. In the medical model,
the disabled or injured individual is regarded as having problems that require medicalbiological
intervention mainly, with little or no attention given to the difficult process of
reintegrating the disabled individual back into society, for example, in resuming their worker
roles. The medical approach may result in feelings of disempowerment on behalf of the
disabled with regard to the rehabilitation process. The lack of success of current rehabilitation
interventions could be seen as a result of an inability to generalize outcomes of rehabilitation
in a clinical setting to the skills needed to return to work or re-integrate into the community.
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Keywords
Vocational rehabilitation, Traumatic brain injury, Client centred approach, Occupational therapy, Disabled persons, Reintegration
Citation
Soeker, M.S. (2014) Returning individuals with mild to moderate brain injury back to work: A systematic client centered approach. In Quinn, T. and Sadaka, F. (Eds.) Traumatic Brain Injury. (pp 373- 394). Croatia: InTech Publishers.