Facial Affect Recognition Training Through Telepractice: Two Case Studies of Individuals with Chronic Traumatic Brain Injury

The use of a modified Facial Affect Recognition (FAR) training to identify emotions was investigated with two case studies of adults with moderate to severe chronic (> five years) traumatic brain injury (TBI). The modified FAR training was administered via telepractice to target social communication skills. Therapy consisted of identifying emotions through static facial expressions, personally reflecting on those emotions, and identifying sarcasm and emotions within social stories and role-play. Pre- and post-therapy measures included static facial photos to identify emotion and the Prutting and Kirchner Pragmatic Protocol for social communication. Both participants with chronic TBI showed gains on identifying facial emotions on the static photos.

• Publication year

  2015

• Venue

  International Journal of Telerehabilitation

• Publication date

  2015-07-29

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Psychology

• Identifiers
  DOI 10.5195/IJT.2015.6167PMID 27563379PMCID 4985275
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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