ABSTRACT
Clinical and research observations indicate that family support and education by professionals are integral for patients' and the family systems' optimal recovery and outcome after moderate to severe acquired brain injuries (see Calvete and de Arroyabe, 2012, for a review; Tam et al., 2015). There are numerous models of family-based support for acquired brain injury, including: specialist family services (Tyerman and Booth, 2001); a family systems approach (Laroi, 2003); the family adjustment and adaptation response model (Carnes and Quinn, 2005); the stress-coping and systems model (Verhaeghe, Defloor and Grypdonck, 2005); a manualised family system intervention curriculum (Gan et al., 2010b); social support and coping strategies (Calvete and de Arroyabe, 2012); a practice-based quality improvement model (Foster et al., 2012); a thematic model (Kuipers et al., 2014); and a family resilience intervention programme (Gauvin-Lepage, Lefebvre and Malo, 2015) (see also Gan et al., 2010a and Woods et al., 2013, for reviews).
