Life Changes When a spouse or partner has a brain injury

Life Changes When a spouse or partner has a brain injury

Janelle Breese Biagioni and Marilyn Lash

Information and tips to help spouses cope with feelings of loss and adjust to changes in roles when a husband or wife has a traumatic brain injury or blast injury.  Explains importance of self-care and setting up a support system to cope with and relieve stress in families after TBI.

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Discusses impact of a brain injury on the family when a husband or wife is injured. Examines changing roles and responsibilities of the non-injured spouse/partner. Shows how to activate a support system to relieve stress.

Discusses coping methods and common responses to changes in parenting, intimacy, and caregiving. Gives tips for talking with children, family, friends, and coworkers after head trauma in civilian life or combat.

Details
Item LCSP
Pages 8
Year 2007, second printing

Contents

This tip card helps spouses and partners…
  • cope with feelings of loss
  • adjust to changes in roles
  • recognize importance of self-care
  • set up a support system
Impact on the Family
  • Loss is Part of Brain Injury
Importance of Self-Care
  • Tips for spouses and partners
Activating a Support System
  • Tips for talking with children, family, friends and coworkers
Parenting
  • Tips for parenting
Life Changes
  • Tips for reconnecting as a family
Intimacy
  • Tips for reclaiming intimacy
Conclusion
 
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Impact on the Family

A brain injury affects everyone in the family. Roles and responsibilities of the non-injured spouse/partner*, and often those of their children, change very quickly. This can feel overwhelming.

Some of the changes include…

  • assisting with physical care
  • giving emotional support
  • supervising for safety
  • helping with communication
  • managing new behaviors
  • advocating for legal, medical and community services and
  • supplementing, or solely providing family income.
  • (For simplicity, the word spouse is used for husband or wife; unmarried partners are also included.)

Having lone responsibility for managing a home, including parenting and finances, can be incredibly stressful for the non-injured spouse. Common reactions are worrying, being confused, feeling overwhelmed, upset and frightened of the future. This can lead to anxiety, stress, anger and depression.

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