Children's sibling relationships : developmental and clinical issues / edited by Frits Boer and Judy Dunn. - Hillsdale, NJ : Lawrence Erblaum, 1992. - xvi, 165 p. ; 24 cm.

Based on the First International Symposium "Brothers and Sisters", Research on Sibling Relationships, Therapeutic Applications, held in Leiden, Netherlands in December 1990. This symposium was organised by the Netherlands Organization for Postacademic Studies in the Social Sciences (PAOS), Academic Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (Curium) and the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the University of Leiden.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Part I: Developmental issues -- Sisters and brothers: current issues in developmental research / Judy Dunn -- The developmental courses of sibling and peer relationships / Duane Buhrmester -- Siblings and their parents / Frits Boer, Arnold W. Goedhart and Philip D. A. Treffers -- Sibling caretaking: providing emotional support during middle childhood / Brenda K. Bryant -- Social norms and the one-child family: clinical and policy implications / Toni Falbo -- Part II: Clinical issues -- Children's experiences with disabled and nondisabled siblings: links with personal adjustment and relationship evaluations / Susan M. McHale and Vicki S. Harris -- The brothers and sisters of mentally retarded children / Ann Gath -- Siblings as co-patients and co-therapists in eating disorders / Walter Vandereycken and Ellie Van Vreckem -- Sibling relationships in disharmonious homes: potential difficulties and protective effects / Jennifer Jenkins -- Remembering and reinterpreting sibling bonds / Stephen Bank.

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