Impact of cognitive and behavioural functioning on vocational outcome following traumatic brain injury: a systematic review.

This systematic review emphasized the link between cognitive and behavioural functioning and vocational rehabilitation in individuals with TBI. However, scientific literature lacks cognitive and behavioural models predicting vocational outcome of these individuals, including academic or vocational training. Such models would allow clinicians to improve vocational guidance of these individuals.Implications for rehabilitationCognitive and behavioural assessment is highly important even many years after traumatic brain injury, especially in a social and professional rehabilitation context.Clinicians should integrate objective measures of cognition and behaviour in post-acute phases of traumatic brain injury.Identifying vocational outcome related cognitive and behavioural patterns of functioning would allow clinicians to improve vocational guidance of adults with traumatic brain injury.