ABSTRACT
This chapter considers how to make the organisations we work for welcoming, accepting and supportive of families. It demonstrates the ways in which parental identity may be affected by Acquired brain injury (ABI) and outlines ways to support a new beginning for those facing them. The chapter explores ways in which strains in spousal/partner relationships might affect the parenting dynamic, and considers ways to address these difficulties. It seeks to identify the ways younger children, older children, and young people might be affected by parental ABI and consider how to support them. Supporting families after parental brain injury requires an approach that recognises the effect of time and life stage, not only of the referred individual, but the family as a whole. In supporting families affected by parental brain injury, professionals will often be called on to consider risk assessments in terms of the family situation, most commonly being asked to comment on an ABI person's parenting capacity.
