Regulating Emotions and Behaviors After Brain Injury

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Summary criteria for participant selection.

Main eligibility criteria

GREMO patients :

• Inclusion criteria:

• Persons with acquired brain injury regardless of the type or location of theinjury

• Age between 18 and 68

• Over 18 months since the acquired brain injury (or 6 month if mild traumaticbrain injury)

• Challenging behaviors or emotional dysregulation or high level of anxiety /depression or family's complaints about emotional dysregulation

• Secondary or exacerbated by an acquired brain injury

• Causing important suffering for themselves or their families

• Being affiliated to a social security

• Fluent in French

• Being able to understand goals and risks and to give a dated and signed consent

• Exclusion criteria:

• Clinically evident severe lack of insight, lack of abstract reasoning, orsevere anosognosia

• Patients without any complaints

• Severe cognitive impairments, aphasia or intellectual impairments that doesn'tallow to understand DBT skills, questionnaires or group intreactions

• Non fluent in French

• Associated brain degenerative disease

• Cancerous brain injury with uncertain progression

• Non-stabilized psychotic disorder

• Following a third wave cognitive behavioral therapy during the research study (for example : acceptance and commitment therapy)

Controls without brain injury

• Inclusion criteria :

• Being 18 years old or more

• Without brain injury

• Exclusion criteria :

• Non fluent in French

• History of brain injury or brain disease

• History of psychiatric disorder

• Personality disorder

• GREMO patient's family member living together

• Psychologist, neuropsychologist or people with an emotional regulationknowledge linked to their profession

• Being under guardianship or curatorship

• Being pregnant or breastfeeding

GREMO patients' family members

• Inclusion criteria :

• Being 18 years old or more

• GREMO patient's family member

• Living with a GREMO patient

• Agreeing to rate an emotion-behavior-skills diary cards

• Exclusion criteria :

• GREMO patient's refusal for their family member to participate

• Non fluent in French

• Brain injury or brain disease

• Major lack of insight

• Being under trusteeship or curatorship

Qualitative research ABI patients and families

• Inclusion criteria :

• Person with ABI attending the same medico-social service as GREMO patients

• Ineligible for GREMO patients group (participation refusal, major insightdifficulty…)

• Agreeing to talk about their free will or spirituality

• Exclusion criteria :

• Aphasia or dysarthria not allowing understandable recording

• Impossibility to understand oral questions

• Non fluent in French