Traumatic Brain Injury In Social Work
Ways TBI is Assessed and Characterized Once TBI is detected in a person, there is an attempt that is made to see how severe the injury is within the person. According to Struchen & Clark (2007), the reason for doing this is to see the initial “triaging” and helping with planning with planning treatment. There are three main ways in traumatic brain injury is assessed and characterized. The first is through Loss of Consciousness (LOC) which is done when after a head injury, a person may be going through a coma. The longer a person is unconscious, the more severe the injury is. What happens, is a medical team of doctors and nurses that track what is happening with the patient on a consistent basis. Glasgow Coma
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In order for the official role of the social work services to be effective, the social worker would have to prepare in some way, shape or form in order to best assist their client. Aside from that, some of the other roles of social work services include advocating for the clients, working with other professionals to go over the needs of those that we are working with, and to counsel our clients with sessions, whether it be group or individual, to help them to overcome some of their obstacles. Social work services are also in place to help clients monitor and evaluate effective goals through a treatment and care plan (“mswonlineprograms”, …show more content…
The first kind of brain injury would be traumatic brain injury. The different forms of brain injury would be what falls under this umbrella. These would be what has been discussed earlier. The second umbrella of traumatic brain injury would be called Aquired Brain Injury which " results from damage to the brain caused by strokes, tumors, anoxia, hypoxia, toxins, degenerative diseases, near drowning and/or other conditions not necessarily caused by an external force (*********). Under the umbrella of acquired brain injury, there is anoxia which is happens what the brain fails to receive any oxygen and this is crucial because the cells of the brain need oxygen to function properly. Then there is hypoxic which is different from anoxia because as opposed to the brain not receiving any oxygen, the brain would receive some oxygen, but not enough of
In order for the official role of the social work services to be effective, the social worker would have to prepare in some way, shape or form in order to best assist their client. Aside from that, some of the other roles of social work services include advocating for the clients, working with other professionals to go over the needs of those that we are working with, and to counsel our clients with sessions, whether it be group or individual, to help them to overcome some of their obstacles. Social work services are also in place to help clients monitor and evaluate effective goals through a treatment and care plan (“mswonlineprograms”, …show more content…
The first kind of brain injury would be traumatic brain injury. The different forms of brain injury would be what falls under this umbrella. These would be what has been discussed earlier. The second umbrella of traumatic brain injury would be called Aquired Brain Injury which " results from damage to the brain caused by strokes, tumors, anoxia, hypoxia, toxins, degenerative diseases, near drowning and/or other conditions not necessarily caused by an external force (*********). Under the umbrella of acquired brain injury, there is anoxia which is happens what the brain fails to receive any oxygen and this is crucial because the cells of the brain need oxygen to function properly. Then there is hypoxic which is different from anoxia because as opposed to the brain not receiving any oxygen, the brain would receive some oxygen, but not enough of