@article{ref1,
title="Social and emotional competence in traumatic brain injury: New and established assessment tools",
journal="Social neuroscience",
year="2011",
author="Hynes, Catherine A. and Stone, Valerie E. and Kelso, Louise A.",
volume="6",
number="5-6",
pages="599-614",
abstract="Chronic social/emotional deficits are common in moderate to severe traumatic brain injury (TBI), leading to significant functional difficulties. Objective, quantitative tools for assessing social/emotional competence are an important adjunct to cognitive assessments. We review existing social/emotional measures, conclude that theory of mind tests are not adequate for clinical assessments of social competence, and explain the development and piloting of novel measures in a small group of moderate to severe TBI patients (N = 16) and non-brain-damaged controls (N = 16). The novel measures are the Global Interpersonal Skills Test (GIST), a questionnaire measuring informant-rated social skills; the Assessment of Social Context (ASC), a video-based task examining understanding of others' emotions, attitudes, and intentions; the Social Interpretations Test, a social framing task based on Heider and Simmel ( 1944 ); and Awareness of Interoception, a heartbeat-detection paradigm related to physiological self-awareness. In a MANOVA, other-rated social skills (GIST), ASC, and Awareness of Interoception scores were significantly lower for TBI patients than controls. ASC, r(31) = .655, and Social Interpretations, r(31) = .460, scores were significantly correlated with informant-rated social skills (GIST). We encourage clinicians to add social/emotional measures to assessments of TBI patients.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1747-0919",
doi="10.1080/17470919.2011.584447",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17470919.2011.584447"
}