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In addition, we incorporated a counselor to help the patient to interpret the importance of the aura and the trigger phenomenon. We view these events as demand for appropriate action. With regard to the aura, the action required was limited to taking a deep breath when the individual felt a seizure coming on. When the triggering phenomenon was involved, the action was to determine whether facing the situation or moving away from it would most support the maintenance of their consciousness14. In each case, the patients were asked to keep a daily journal record of seizure activity and life situations that seemed to promote seizures, and to record what efforts they employed to avoid the seizure. In the case of a low functioning patient, we had them report this information to their care-provider, who then recorded it in a journal. A full description of the treatment model used in this study is provided in Taking Control of Your Epilepsy, a workbook by Reiter et al.5
Sample section
In 1986 a random sample of 83 people was selected from the population of 250 patients who had been treated prior to September 1985, at the private medical practice in Santa Rosa, CA, where the A/R research program is located. Sampling was conducted by selecting every third case in the file . |
