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‘A Precipice in Time’ – Reproductive Biotechnology
Published in Rosa Maria Quatraro, Pietro Grussu, Handbook of Perinatal Clinical Psychology, 2020
These are incredible times, when every day, we encounter biblical reproductive miracles – of asexual immaculate conception, virginal births and post-menopausal childbearing. In this new reality ancient legends come alive. Like the ancient Egyptian Goddess Isis, a widow can be posthumously impregnated by her dead husband – but now she is medically assisted with semen mechanically removed from the comatose man before his death. Today, a grandmother can carry her daughter’s babies in her own womb. Sibling rivalry can be avoided by foetal ‘reductions’ and twins are often born years apart. A donated frozen embryo may be older than its pregnant mother. But we must ask what fantasies do these children carry about their own identities?
Young people with gastrointestinal conditions on home parenteral nutrition and their transition to adult services
Published in Clarissa Martin, Terence Dovey, Angela Southall, Clarissa Martin, Paediatric Gastrointestinal Disorders, 2019
Parents struggled with the emotional strain, physical tiredness and the burden of care, living with the threat of complications. Children may need gastrostomy feeding, ileostomy care, administration of medications, management of vomiting, frequent stool output or urinary bladder catheterisation, and the overall care of the child may take several hours per day with disturbance overnight responding to infusion pump alarms. In addition to the overall care of the child, parent–child conflict or sibling rivalry may be observed.
Tantrums, aggression and sibling rivalry
Published in Quentin Spender, Judith Barnsley, Alison Davies, Jenny Murphy, Primary Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 2019
Quentin Spender, Judith Barnsley, Alison Davies, Jenny Murphy
The assessment may suggest avenues for further assessment or referral, or give opportunities for practical advice. An ABC analysis is likely to highlight opportunities to avoid triggers and generate new consequences. Sibling rivalry is dealt with separately below. Conflict erupting in school may need addressing at least partly within the school context: bullying and specific or general learning difficulty are important to consider. Anger management and self-esteem groups are often available in the school setting. Fights developing in the community may be prevented by the selection of prosocial friends, or limiting unsupervised time outside of the home, but some parents may find this easier than others. Parents may find they can limit opportunities for aggressive behaviours by keeping their children occupied in enjoyable activities, such as after-school clubs, football or martial arts. Rewarding cooperative behaviours with labelled praise or points systems should help to reinforce alternatives to aggressive behaviour. Time-out can be used for younger children as a last resort.
A systematic review of siblings’ psychosocial outcomes following traumatic brain injury
Published in Disability and Rehabilitation, 2022
Tamara Ownsworth, Lina Karlsson
Although siblings are not often primary caregivers after TBI, they typically provide support in many aspects of care [6]. Siblings may also become the main caregiver in the longer term when parents are no longer able to fulfil this role. When the injury occurs in childhood, siblings may experience trauma and confusion regarding the changes that occur in their brother or sister [9] and feel overlooked as a result of the attention focused on their injured sibling, particularly in the early adjustment phase [10]. The injury may affect the quality and the amount of time spent between parents and other children in the family and feelings of sibling rivalry may increase [11,12]. In the longer term, growing up with a sibling with TBI may increase the sibling’s responsibilities in the family, requiring them to be mature beyond their years [6]. Siblings may also experience grief over the changes to the person they knew so well and worry about the long-term care of their injured sibling [13].
A snapshot of Australian social workers in palliative care and their work with estranged clients
Published in Social Work in Health Care, 2018
Research specifically focused on estrangement-related issues such as successful or attempted reunification, the impact of non-reunification, and studies with younger palliative clients are starkly absent from the research literature. There are some references to estrangement in conflict studies, where estrangement has in some way created or contributed to dissention or hostility. For example, there is some evidence that the return of an estranged adult child can negatively disrupt family dynamics when elderly parents become unwell (Kramer, Boelk, & Auer, 2006; Peisah, Brodaty, & Quadrio, 2006). Here sibling rivalry can include jostling for parental approval, isolating — usually the previously estranged person — from information or decision making, and attempting to recruit staff into the familial dispute (Lichtenthal & Kissane, 2008; Peisah et al., 2006). Family absence has been noted as an important psychosocial issue to address in social work intervention at end of life (Fineberg, 2010) and one that may be facilitated by the use of technologies such as skype (Johnston, Hillier, Purdon, Pears, & Robson, 2012). Kuhl’s (2011) qualitative study highlighted the end of life need for belonging: those with broken or estranged relationships with parents or children longed for resolution before death. Resolution could mean restoring communication, re-establishing trust or truly understanding what had happened in the relationship; it could mean letting go of the hope of repair, addressing the estrangement or mending the relationship (p. 48).
“It’s Just the Abuse that Needs to Stop”: Professional Framing of Sibling Relationships in a Grounded Theory Study of Social Worker Decision Making following Sibling Sexual Behavior
Published in Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2020
There are a number of possible explanations. The marginalization of sibling violence as a harmless form of family aggression may be due to its being normalized as an expected and inevitable part of growing up (Caffaro & Conn-Caffaro, 2005; Khan & Rogers, 2015), with no clear definition to distinguish it unequivocally from sibling rivalry (Perkins, Coles, & O’Connor, 2017). Sibling rivalries, jealousies and quarrels may perform useful developmental functions (Sanders, 2004), but an analysis of power is often absent (McIntosh & Punch, 2009), which belies the lived experiences of sibling violence victims (Meyers, 2015).