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Helping Teens
After brain injury
By Robyn Littleford & Nancy Anderson ~ 2002
Sustaining a brain injury during adolescence can significantly complicate and even permanently affect the completion of these developmental tasks. The “typical” changes of adolescence can be compounded by additional physical, cognitive, emotional and social changes caused by the brain injury. This creates challenges for the youth who is struggling to grow up and mature into an independent adult. There are also challenges for the parent to help the youth stay safe and avoid further injury.
Keeping friends can be difficult, as the adolescent with a brain injury may...
· no longer be at the same cognitive and behavioral level as peers
· not know the “rules” or “code” of age-appropriate social behavior
· be unable to initiate conversation or activity
· be fatigued and have different interests now
· have fewer opportunities to interact with peers or participate in the same activities as peers.
Friends of the adolescent may...
· not understand how or why their friend has changed
· not accept the changes and limitations of their friend
· not know what is appropriate to talk about
· be afraid of upsetting their friend or of asking personal questions
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