Siblings in Child and Adolescent Individual Therapy

Abstract

Part II examined ways in which clinicians work primarily with parents on creating intimacy between siblings. Part III, on the other hand, details situations where clinicians play a more active role in sibling therapy with children, adolescents, and adults. Chapter 7 identifies two primary situations where a therapist might work directly with child or adolescent siblings to help bring peace to rivaling siblings or to activate a source of compensatory support in cases of trauma (Garcia, Shaw, Winslow, & Yaggi, 2000; Gnaulati, 2002; Schibuk, 1989). Chapter 8 examines how sibling work within a family context can help in the assessment and intervention of overall marital and parental hostility.