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Strategies for Children Who May Feel Embarrassed About a Parent with TBI

Audrey Daisley, DClinPsych, CPsych
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Role playing is one strategy that psychologists use to help children deal with embarrassment they may have by their parent with TBI, or people's reaction to that parent.

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Posted on BrainLine December 18, 2012.

Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough, Justin Rhodes, and Erica Queen, BrainLine.