Reductions in Alexithymia and Emotion Dysregulation After Training Emotional Self-Awareness Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Phase I Trial.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To examine the acceptability and initial efficacy of an emotional self-awareness treatment at reducing alexithymia and emotion dysregulation in participants with traumatic brain injury (TBI).

Setting

An outpatient rehabilitation hospital.

Participants

Seventeen adults with moderate to severe TBI and alexithymia. Time postinjury ranged 1 to 33 years.

Design

Within subject design, with 3 assessment times: baseline, posttest, and 2-month follow-up.

Intervention

Eight lessons incorporated psychoeducational information and skill-building exercises teaching emotional vocabulary, labeling, and differentiating self-emotions; interoceptive awareness; and distinguishing emotions from thoughts, actions, and sensations.

Measures

Toronto Alexithymia

SUBMITTER: Neumann D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5498277 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep/Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature