Abstract
Persons with SCI and their family caregivers experience immediate and permanent life changes that necessitate major adjustments in coping and lifestyle. Family caregivers are often as stressed as persons with SCI in attempting to adjust to the changes and demands of living with SCI. Although there are common needs and tasks of adjustment to SCI no two people are alike. An individualized intervention designed to support caregivers and persons with SCI has been developed and evaluated. The Intervention called Multiple family group (MFG) involves two clinicians meeting with a group of persons with SCI and their family caregivers. A group format provides individualized education, problem solving, and support. This chapter describes the MFG intervention and supportive evidence for persons with SCI and their caregivers as against standard education. We end the chapter with applications to other areas of neuroscience as well as discuss opportunities and challenges to implementing and disseminating MFG into systems of rehabilitation care.
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