SOCIAL COMPETENCE AND HEAD-INJURY - A PRACTICAL APPROACH

Social competence assessment and training has long focused on specific skills within the clinical setting. In addition, emphasis has been pl aced on identifying deficits relative to an arbitrary, often idiosyncr atic metric. In this article, we discuss the importance of the princip les that underlie communication and which are reflected in the range o f behaviours described as 'social competence'. We review methods we ha ve found productive in the training of these principles with persons w ho have suffered traumatic brain injuries.