"Errorless" rehabilitation: strategies of proactive intervention for individuals with brain injury and their children.
BACKGROUND
Individuals with brain injury are prone to severe behavior problems related to various postinjury variables, including confusion, emotional distress, fear of challenging activity, and loss of skills to access desired outcomes.


OBJECTIVE
This article proposes the use of a new model, errorless rehabilitation, to improve rehabilitation outcomes by systematically focusing on graduated and success-based exposure of clients with brain injury to increasingly demanding circumstances, to provide them with the ability to tolerate and manage the natural environment.


METHODS
Research on difficulties parents with brain injury experience with their children is subsequently reviewed and a new approach (based on the same principles as Errorless Rehabilitation) to treatment of parent-child relationship issues after brain injury is described.


CONCLUSIONS
A case study of a father with brain injury and his oppositional son is presented to demonstrate a specific application of this model for enhancing the quality of life of parents with such impairments.
Ducharme
Joseph M
JM
University of Toronto and Hamilton Health Sciences, Ontario, Canada.
D000328:Adult; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019300:Medical Errors; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000150:complications* / Q000523:psychology / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D008960:Models, Psychological; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D010287:Parent-Child Relations