Table 2 COMPASS^goal Inclusion and exclusion criteria

COMPASS^GOAL: community re-integration study

TBI of at least mild severity using criteria related to disturbance of consciousness (VHA TBI Comprehensive Evaluation screening tool) [67]

Inability to provide informed consent and no proxy available

Obtained informed consent

Severe impairment of language or day-to-day memory that would preclude participation in a verbal-based therapy

Males or females of working age, between the ages of 18 and 55

Life expectancy of less than 36 months

Medically stable with physician approval to participate

Severe multiple trauma (judged by the attending physicians and/or investigators as too severe for participation in this study), such as severe burns, serious organ damage, amputations, or multiple fractures

Ability to comprehend and communicate in English at a 6th-grade level

History of substance abuse severe enough to cause neurologic damage, pre-morbid history of neurologic disease (e.g., stroke)

Executive dysfunction as identified by the FrSBe [68] and/or other study assessments (see Table 3 )

Prior history of known bipolar disorder or schizophrenia or severe psychiatric illness as confirmed by medical records and/or clinical judgment or M.I.N.I. assessment [69–72] if no clinical judgment is on record