A traumatic brain injury can turn a person’s life upside-down, as they often have to relearn many skills after they have recovered enough to begin rehabilitation. In addition, they also have to learn to accept any new limitations on their mobility, abilities, and lives if they cannot fully recover from such an injury. Learn how traumatic brain injury counseling can help a patient below.
What is Traumatic Brain Injury Counseling?
Traumatic brain injury counseling is a type of therapy that involves helping people who have experienced such an injury. This type of counseling focuses on providing emotional support, developing coping skills, helping a person rediscover their identity and close relationships after the injury, and redeveloping and learning new life skills after the injury.
How Does This Counseling Help a Patient?
A patient who has experienced such a brain injury will often feel remorse and regret over the incident that caused the injury, potentially blaming themselves and even others over the injury happening to them. In addition, they may feel remorse over not having the same skills and abilities they had before the injury, being unable to regain them even through rehabilitation.
Such counseling is designed to help them process and deal with the anger, remorse, and regret they are experiencing from the event that caused their injury and any limitations they now have. This counseling is also designed to help them form strategies to compensate for any limitations they now have and to help develop new skills they can use to better their quality of life after the injury.
