ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some recommendations for future research with a relational orientation. Principles of relational approaches that highlight the role of family processes in biopsychosocial formulations, also the inconsistency of cognition across different social contexts may hold a key to resolving the lack of consensus of findings in the literature. The item pool from which items for a final questionnaire are selected needs to be representative and include all the issues of concern to families of neuro-rehabilitation patients. Interest in using qualitative methods in the brain injury field has provided new insights on family functioning, family dynamics, or experiences within rehabilitation services. Further studies highlighting the complexity of issues and of relationships between variables is provided by studies of children with brain injury. Some novel studies have also approached the issue from a quality of life perspective, an approach that holds much promise and one that has been widely used with other conditions.
