Telemedicine Brain Injury Coping Skills (BICS-T) Support Group for Brain Injury Survivors and Their Caregivers

"BICS is a 12 session (one session per week), manualized, cognitive-behavioral treatment group designed to provide support, coping skills, and psychoeducation aimed to improve perceived self-efficacy (PSE) and emotional functioning. PSE has been found to be strongly linked to social participation, increased positive regard toward the caregiving role, and was found to be the greatest contributing factor to predicting life satisfaction.~For this study, the Brain Injury Coping Skills (BICS) group intervention will be administered electronically in a web-based group telemedicine platform, BICS-T. The purpose of this phase is to test the feasibility, participant training protocol, and ease of use of equipment and technology."