Social cognition and emotion regulation: a multifaceted treatment (T-ScEmo) for patients with traumatic brain injury.

This is a protocol description and case report, not a full report of the randomized controlled trial, so it does not provide enough original data to judge effectiveness. The case report describes a single person, so his changes cannot be generalized to other patients with traumatic brain injury. The multifaceted protocol uses several components together, so the contribution of any single module or ingredient cannot be separated. The paper states that the therapist should be at neuropsychologist level, so it may not be directly transferable to PT, OT or SLP settings without adaptation. It excludes patients whose social behavior requires medication or a protective environment, and patients with severe memory, language or perception impairments that interfere with treatment, so it says little about more severely impaired TBI patients.

The authors declared no potential conflicts of interest. Funding was provided by the Dutch Brain Foundation, grant F2008 (1)-18.

Do not read the reported improvements in emotion recognition, theory of mind, empathy, partner relationship quality, quality of life and societal participation as evidence from this article. This paper describes the protocol and a case report, and it does not present the randomized controlled trial methods or outcome data.