Traumatic Brain Injury Paper

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When you are looking at the two types of disorders and the impact of a traumatic brain injury, you need to look at the big picture. When a co-worker has a diagnosis of anti-social personality, most co-workers do not even know it and the person can be consider aloof and not liked by the team. A traumatic brain injury can lead to a person having an anti-social personality. When you add insomnia to the mix, you end up with a person that is going to need special help adapting to their work environment. When describing each of these diagnoses you need to break each one down to their symptoms and ways to understand and intervene if it begins to interfere with their work performance. Finding effective ways to approach the co-worker or co-worker that …show more content…

When you are approaching individuals with each of these disorders, you need to empathic and have patience with that co-worker. You need to let that person know you are available if they need someone to talk to and if you are close to that co-worker, then do the research to find out different ways and coping skills you can attempt to teach them, According to Psych Center, a person with anti-social personality disorder displays. Deceitfulness, as indicated by repeated lying, use of aliases, or conning others for personal profit or pleasure. Impulsivity or failure to plan ahead, irritability and aggressiveness, as indicated by repeated physical fights or assaults, reckless disregard for safety of self or others Consistent irresponsibility, as indicated by repeated failure to sustain consistent work behavior or honor financial …show more content…

TBI can cause a wide range of functional short- or long-term changes affecting thinking, sensation, language, or emotions. Thinking (i.e., memory and reasoning) Sensation (i.e., touch, taste, and smell); Language (i.e., communication, expression, and understanding); and Emotion (i.e., depression, anxiety, personality changes, aggression, acting out, and social inappropriateness); Repeated mild TBIs occurring over an extended period (i.e., months, years) can result in cumulative neurological and cognitive

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