The study evaluated the impact that domestic violence (DV) service organizations' (SO) agency-wide adoption of CARE had on improving DVSO trauma-informed care (TIC) practices, overall, and in relation to addressing brain injury and mental health. CARE is an advocacy intervention designed to raise DVSOs' capacity to CONNECT with survivors; ACKNOWLEDGE that head trauma, strangulation, and mental health challenges are common; RESPOND by accommodating needs in services and providing targeted referrals; and EVALUATE effectiveness of response to meet survivors' stated concerns. The study determined that CARE improved TIC practices of DVSOs, overall, and to address brain injury and mental health.

Seniors have a higher risk of death and disability from traumatic brain injury (TBI), but the condition is often under-recognized.  The cognitive communication effects of TBI can sometimes mirror the symptoms of typical aging and may be overlooked. This article provides guidance for speech-language pathologists on assessment and treatment strategies for older adults with TBI.

The statement seeks to provide athletic trainers and team physicians with updated recommendations to the 2014 National Athletic Trainers' Association (NATA) concussion position statement regarding concussion management, specifically in the areas of education, assessment, prognostic factors, mental health, return to academics, physical activity, rest, treatment, and return to sport. The recommendations are intended to update the state of the evidence concerning the management of patients with sport-related concussion, specifically in the areas of education; assessment advances; prognostic recovery indicators; mental health considerations; academic considerations; and exercise, activity, and rehabilitation management strategies.