Read more about the article Open Ears, Open Eyes, Open Mind, Closed Mouth: Supporting Family after Brain Injury – Part 3
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Open Ears, Open Eyes, Open Mind, Closed Mouth: Supporting Family after Brain Injury – Part 3

A starter kit for supporting family after brain injury. Here are four simple actions that you can practice to better support family after brain injury, with compassion and empathy. Over the past couple of posts I have talked about being alongside family after brain injury. Firstly the responses and reactions family members might experience and then about responding with empathy and compassion. How can you put this into practice? It can seem so overwhelming when you begin. Think Open Ears, Open Eyes, Open Mind, and Closed Mouth The following are some tips for how you can begin to offer relevant support to a family after brain injury: OPEN EARS Listen closely to what each family member is telling you about their own experience and the impact on their family after brain injury. Listen as they talk about their needs, and what you can do to best support them. Listen, and let the family know you are hearing and understanding them.  Acknowledge that…

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Read more about the article Family Support after Brain Injury: Empathy and Compassion – Part 2
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Family Support after Brain Injury: Empathy and Compassion – Part 2

How do we understand family support  after brain injury, when we are all different? Each of our families work differently, whether a family member has experienced a major trauma, such as brain injury, or not. Last week, the discussion was about the responses and reactions family might have when a family member has a brain injury. Understanding this, is a starting point to having a family sensitive approach to family support after brain injury. Now we can discuss how we provide family support after brain injury, when not only each family is different, brain injury is different in every person. Compassion and Empathy How to best support family after brain injury? Compassion and empathy, are great foundations. I believe both these words are very misunderstood in our world today, they seem to be seen as soft, or weak. We will talk more about them in the future. For now, in very simple terms: Compassion is well described in the principle “do unto…

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