Exercises

This section of our book’s website houses some further exercises that will help to better understand and engage with brain-injured patients and their circumstances.

Content to follow.

Patient Assessment

When it comes to helping patients and their families and understanding and addressing brain injury in doing so, accurate assessments of patients’ cognitive, behavioural and psychological functioning are key. This section of our book’s website provides a number of important assessment tools that can be utilized where appropriate. It is of course important to ensure that such tools are only administered by those who are properly qualified/trained to use them. Such requirements will vary from test to test, and potentially from country to country too.

http://www.tbims.org

http://www.projectlearnet.org/

Stroke Rehabilitation Screening and Assessment Tools (Mood and General Health, etc)
http://strokebestpractices.ca/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Table-5.1_Stroke-Rehabilitation-Screening-and-Assessment-Tools-June-2013.pdf

Guidelines for the Comprehensive Assessment of the Person with TBI
https://braininjuryguidelines.org/fileadmin/Guidelines_components/Rec/Section_2_REC_complete_ENG_final.pdf

Stroke Assessment Scales (Pre-hospital, Acute, Functional, Outcome, etc)
http://www.strokecenter.org/professionals/stroke-diagnosis/stroke-assessment-scales/

Rancho los Amigos Scale, Glasgow Scale, Disability Rating Scale
https://www.neuroskills.com/resources/rating-scales.php

Rating Scale for Attention Problems, Visual Processing Problems, Memory Problems, Information Processing Problems, Executive Functioning Problems, Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, Attention Questionnaire, Every Day Memory Questionnaire,
https://www.braintreetraining.co.uk/cogassses.pdf

European Brain Injury Questionnaire
http://teasdale.psy.ku.dk/EBIQ.pdf

Barrow Neurological Institute Fatigue Scale
http://onf.org/system/attachments/200/original/ONF_mTBI_Guidelines_2nd_Edition_MODULE_11.pdf

Awareness Assessment Tools
https://multicontext.net/awareness-assessments/

Awareness Questionnaire (patient and relative forms)
http://www.tbims.org/combi/aq/index.html

Apathy Evaluation Scale
http://www.tbims.org/combi/aes/index.html

Iowa Scale Personality Change
https://www.sralab.org/sites/default/files/2017-02/ISPC-M.pdf

Neuropsychiatric Inventory
http://npitest.net/npi/investigator-initiated/how-to-obtain-the-academic-npi.html

Overt Behavioural Scale (challenging behavior after ABI)
http://www.tbims.org/combi/obs/index.html

Community Integration Questionnaire
http://www.tbims.org/combi/ciq/index.html

Mayo Portland Adaptability Inventory
http://www.tbims.org/combi/mpai/index.html