Myths & Facts: About behavior after brain injury

Myths & Facts: About behavior after brain injury

Harvey E. Jacobs, Ph.D.
Sorting out myths and facts about behavior after TBI helps survivors, families, and caregivers address challenging behaviors more effectively. Behavior problems after brain injury are reinforced by myths with inaccurate information about changes in behavior after head trauma. This tip card explains the connection between the brain and behavior. Information helps families and caregivers recognize the causes and reasons for challenging behaviors and how to respond positively rather than negatively.
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Myths and facts about behavior after TBI can confuse caregivers. The most common myth is that a brain injury causes behavior problems. This tip card lists 11 misunderstandings and inaccurate beliefs about behavior after brain injury and gives factual information to correct them. Topics addressed include behavioral myths about attention, punishment, anger, mental illness, laziness, avoidance, restrictions, fixes, medication and personality. This tip card helps families, survivors, caregivers, and clinicians recognize the complexity of behavior after brain injury and avoid common stereotypes.

Details
Item MFBE
Pages 8
Year 2007

Authors

Harvey E. Jacobs, Ph.D.

Dr. Jacobs has special expertise in behavioral rehabilitation for individuals with neurological, psychiatric, medical and developmental disorders. He is a national leader and expert in the treatment of behavior disorders following brain injury. His innovative programs have addressed community integration, social support networks, vocational rehabilitation, behavioral rehabilitation, and psychiatric rehabilitation.

Throughout his practice, Dr. Jacobs has worked with persons of diverse ages ranging from pediatrics to geriatrics. A gifted writer and trainer, he is well known for his pragmatic approach to treatment in the community.

Contents

This tip card helps families and professionals...

  • correct common misunderstandings
  • understand changes in behavior
  • react positively rather than negatively

What will he be like? Will she act differently now?

Myth... Brain injury causes behavior problems.

Myth... He acts that way to get attention.

Myth... Punishing the person for the behavior will change it.

Myth... Anger means the person is out of control and is dangerous.

Myth... Changes in behavior after brain injury are a sign of mental illness.

Myth... Doing nothing, staying home and watching TV is a sign of laziness.

Myth... Avoidance is the safest approach when a person’s behavior is unpredictable.

Myth... Telling someone not to do something will only make things worse.

Myth... A person’s behavior can be fixed if you just know what to do.

Myth... With the right medication, the unwanted behavior will go away.

Myth... People develop difficult personalities following a brain injury.

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Myth... Brain injury causes behavior problems.

Fact... A person may act or behave differently because of changes in the brain after an injury or in reaction to how life has changed because of the injury.

A brain injury does not cause behavior problems by itself. But it may change how a person sees, hears, touches, smells, or otherwise senses what is happening or going on each day. It can change how a person remembers or understands information. It can change how a person responds or reacts to a situation.

Difficulties talking or communicating can also be frustrating. Emotional changes can be caused by damage to the brain or due to personal reactions of becoming disabled. Other changes can come from lost opportunities, such as not seeing old friends, not being able to go to work, losing freedom, or having less personal control.

When any of these changes cause problems, they are sometimes considered “behavior problems”. But not all changes are a problem. It is important to remember that a brain injury itself does not cause a behavior problem, but it may set the stage for problems to occur.

 

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