Clients with history of brain injury or neurological disorder can be challenging for the vocational rehabilitation counselor (VRC) to assess and help rehabilitate. Neuropsychological evaluation provides systematic assessment of deficits in functioning secondary to brain injury. Such assessments can be of great value to the VRC, but may not be widely known or utilized by VRCs in many areas. This paper discusses issues of vocational rehabilitation of brain injured individuals, and proposes guidelines for eliciting relevant information from the client and for making appropriate referral for neuropsychological evaluation. VRCs are in an excellent position to identify individuals for whom neuropsychological evaluation is needed, since cognitive and behavioral deficits resulting from brain injury or neurological disorder are frequently not addressed until the question is raised during the vocational rehabilitation process.
Neuropsychological Evaluation in Severe Traumatic Brain Injury.
