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How Older Children Often React to a Parent with TBI

Audrey Daisley, DClinPsych, CPsych
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When a parent is injured, older children can react from becoming withdrawn to putting too much pressure on themselves to perform perfectly at school. But kids are resilient and, with or without support, they will bounce back.

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Posted on BrainLine December 18, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Justin Rhodes, and Erica Queen, BrainLine.