Document Type
Book Chapter
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Faculty
Faculty of Computing, Health and Science
School
School of Exercise, Biomedical and Health Science / Child Health Promotion Research Centre
RAS ID
8020
Abstract
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is one of the most common causes of acquired disability during childhood. While the majority of such injuries are mild, and result in few, if any, functional sequelae, children sustaining more significant insults may experience permanent cognitive and behavioral deficits. Clinical reports indicate residual impairments in a range of skills, particularly information-processing, attention, memory, learning, social function and behavior. These deficits impact on a child's capacity to interact with the environment effectively, resulting in lags in skill acquisition, and increasing gaps between injured children and their age peers, as they move through childhood and into adulthood. Secondary deficits may also emerge, relating to family stress and adjustment difficulties. Treatment and management of the child with TBI and family requires long-term involvement, where the role of the neuropsychologist is to understand the child's difficulties, to inform parents and the wider community of their cognitive and behavioral implications, to liaise with teachers and rehabilitation workers, to design academic and vocational interventions and behavior-management programs, and to provide counseling with respect to adjustment issues for the child and family.
DOI
10.1017/CBO9780511674815.024
Access Rights
free_to_read
Comments
Beauchamp, M., Dooley, J. J., & Anderson, V. (2010). Adult outcomes of pediatric traumatic brain injury . In Jacobus Donders & Scott J Hunter (Eds.). Principles and Practice of Lifespan Developmental Neuropsychology (pp. 315-328). Location: Cambridge University Press. Available here
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