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Therapy with Siblings in Reorganizing Families
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Rosenberg, Elinor B. |
| Copyright Year | 2004 |
| Abstract | The toss of parenting figures through death, divorce, or other kinds of separation often leaves children without consistent parental support and with increased fears of abandonment. In the natural cycle, siblings can maintain almost lifelong relationships and therefore are in a position to offer each other a significant support system over an extended period of time. We have found that work with sibling subgroups can help children to resolve their individual and shared conflicts as well as to remove interferences to mutually supportive relationships. Illustrative cases are presented and treatment guidelines offered. Clinicians are becoming increasingly aware of the sibling subgroup as a powerful system within families. An early clinical impression is that sibling relationships vary through developmental stages of the life cycle. These relationships adapt to the differing needs of early and middle childhood, adolescence, adulthood and later life often then without living parents. Over the past few years, some of us at the Youth Services Outpatient Clinic have worked intensively with sibling groups. In a number of cases, after a full diagnostic work-up of individual children and their families was completed, the decision was made to treat the sibling group separately. It was thought that these brothers and sisters had something special to offer each other which could be optimally developed if they were seen together without a parent present. The particular therapeutic goals in each case were different Elinor B~ Rosenberg A.C.S.W. is aff i l iated with the Dept. of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Medical Center. Reprint requests should be addressed to the author at the University of Michigan Medical Center, Ann Arbor~ MI 48109. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the National Conference of the American Association of Psychiatric Services for Children, November 1977, in Washington, D.C. Ms. Rosenberg is grateful to Harvey Falit, M.D., and Fady Hajal, M.D., for their encouragement and support of this work. International Journal of Family Therapy, 2(3), Fall 1980 1 39 0148-8384/80/1500-0139500,95 9 7980 Human Sciences Press |
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| Alternate Webpage(s) | https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/44291/10591_2004_Article_BF00927383.pdf?sequence=1 |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Aanderaa–Karp–Rosenberg conjecture CNS disorder Cessation of life Conflict (Psychology) Enterprise life cycle Fear (Mental Process) Mental disorders Plant Leaves Psychiatry Specialty Reprint Science Significant figures ambulatory care services work up |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
