My Dad Got Hurt. What Can I Do?: Helping Military Children Cope with a Brain-Injured Parent

Download or read book My Dad Got Hurt. What Can I Do?: Helping Military Children Cope with a Brain-Injured Parent written by National Academy of Neuropsychology Foundation and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-07-31 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book offers young readers practical coping tools to empower children to feel confident about themselves and become a more active participant in his or her injured parent's life. Every day, many children watch as a parent goes off to a military assignment, often in dangerous situations. Most children will later welcome home their parents who served without incident. Others, however, will greet a parent who suffered a head injury, which changes all their lives. While brain injury is a complex topic, it is an unfortunate fact that certain types of brain injuries, which are all too common in military personnel, affect a person's behaviors such as mood and temper. A previously kind and loving parent may become irritable, short-fused and be intolerant of frustration after a brain injury. To a child, this change can be scary and overwhelming. Children may not understand why Mom or Dad is so different and may blame themselves"--