HEALTHPhysicalBecause of his damage to the brain, Dean’s impulse control is affected and this hasdecreased his short-term memory and concentration ability making him irritated attimes. He is not able to come to terms with this change in his abilities and this haschanged his behavior (Swain & Rice (ed), 2009). He is now difficult with his parentsand friends and reacts indifferently with them now. Dean's emotional outbursts areunpredictable. He laughs out loud at times and at the next moment he starts crying. Ithas become difficult for him to sustain his attention on his surroundings (Maidment &Bay, 2012). The weakness of his right side muscles has limited his ability ofparticipating in the athletic activities he previously enjoyed. He has become restless andbecomes agitated sometimes, and this frustration is because of the organic aspect of theinjuries which he has sustained (Maidment & Bay, 2012).PsychologicalDean is currently on an emotional roller coaster. Sometimes he speaks that heunderstands his future plans have to be changed but at some moments he is unable toaccept the limitations (Muller, 2014). He still wants things should be the way they were.His mental deficiencies are making it impossible for him to resume a successful collegedegree. In frustration, he even resents the constant supervision which his parents giveand feels resented that he is being treated like a baby. Dean feels frustrated because ofhis disability in remembering, in expressing himself and concentrating on anything(Muller, 2014). Drugs and AlcoholMost of his old colleagues have resumed their college and because of this he has startedhanging out with another younger group and has taken to drinking heavily again. Thishas made Dean's rehabilitation a more arduous task, especially for his parents (Wilson& Powell, 2012). Prior to this accident, Dean was a gregarious young man. In highschool, Dean was popular as a good student and used to play in the football team. Healso loved skiing and skin diving and was expert at riding dirt bikes. Dean’s parentswere stunned when they learned that he along with some of his colleagues used to getdrunk nearly every weekend (Gal & Weiss-Gal (ed), 2013). This information wasshared by another social worker who was running a family counseling session with oneof Dean’s friend along with a rehabilitation team and who had recently attended aseminar on alcohol and other drug problems. Dean's parents found it hard to believe, but

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