Executive Functioning in TBI From Rehabilitation to Social Reintegration: COMPASS

Inclusion Criteria:

- TBI of at least mild severity using criteria related to disturbance of consciousness
(VHA TBI Comprehensive Evaluation screening tool).

- Obtained informed consent.

- Males or females of working age, between the ages of 18 and 55.

- Medically stable with physician approval to participate

- Ability to comprehend and communicate in English at a 6th grade level

- Executive dysfunction as identified by Frontal Systems Rating Scale (FrSBe) and/or
other study assessments

Exclusion Criteria:

- Unable to provide informed consent and no proxy available.

- Severe impairment of language or day- to-day memory that would preclude participation
in a verbally-based therapy.

- Life expectancy of less than 36 months.

- Severe multiple trauma (as judged by the attending physicians and/or investigators
that is too severe to participate in this study) such as:

- severe burns

- serious organ damage

- amputations

- multiple fractures

- History of substance abuse severe enough to cause neurologic damage, pre-morbid
history of neurologic disease (e.g., stroke).

- Prior history of known bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or severe psychiatric illness
as determined by medical history.