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Title: Cognición social en traumatismo craneoencefálico
Author: Macías Sánchez, Patricia María
Tutor: Rubial Álvarez, Sandra
Abstract: Social Cognition (SC) is a complex construct referring to the ability to understand the behaviour in others and acting accordingly in social settings. Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) patients may present difficulties in processing and generating social behaviours, and have significant social problems, such as selfishness and lack of sensitivity towards the needs of others. These behaviours have been attributed, at least in part, to a reduction of the ability of empathy. These difficulties cause personal relationships to wear out, at a family level, as well as at workplace and community levels. An intervention program is presented to SC rehabilitation in chronic Brain Damage patient due to severe TBI. The patient presents Major Neurocognitive Impairment that affects memory, executive functions and major impairment in social cognition with a mild behavioural impairmet (impulsivity). Difficulties in emotional processing, and Theory of Mind and empathy are evident. Their effect in the recognition of socioaffective stimuli implies an alteration in the behavioural regulation sensitive to context. We propose a multidimensional treatment of the SC components proposed by Oschner (2008): emotional processing, Theory of Mind, Attributive Style, Social Perception and Knowledge, and Empathy. The results in various studies show that multidimensional treatment is effective in aspects such as recognition of facial emotions and ToM, while favouring an enhancement in the number of social interactions and boosting their empathic quality.
Keywords: emotional processing
traumatic brain injury
theory of mind
empathy
social cognition
Document type: info:eu-repo/semantics/masterThesis
Issue Date: Jan-2020
Publication license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/  
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