Examining the aggregate of studies on the buffering effects of sibling support indicates that siblings may offer protection for children and adolescents experiencing elevated family turmoil.
This included four of the siblings talking to at least one other sibling support group member outside of the support group sessions and is corroborated by answers in the Evaluation Questionnaire whereby siblings reported they had made new friends at the support group.
We question the established notion that siblings unilaterally subtract from resource pools, and argue that sibling support may be consequential for a wide range of demographic outcomes in a variety of cultural contexts.
While there is some recognition of the challenges faced by younger siblings (Sibs has a dedicated website for children), the charity is developing adult sibling support groups.
To fill this gap, he started the sibling support project, which is based in Seattle and provides information and holds discussion groups for children around the country.
Presently, she works in the autism clinic at the Yale Child Study Center, conducting clinical evaluations, social skills groups, and sibling support groups.
She also provides clinical characterization for a number of federally-funded studies of ASD, and conducts research evaluating the effectiveness of sibling support and social skills interventions.
SSI = Sibling support index.
My first model includes parental support and older sibling support indices, looks at the perceived importance of the family members in question, and has the parents' education levels as a control variable in addition to age, gender and city of residence (M1).
Beyond the advantages of sibling support in normative situations, researchers and clinicians are beginning to appreciate the advantages of sibling warmth in non-normative family situations.
In addition, sibling support groups can facilitate the identification of any need for additional services [ 31].
