Sibling Group Lends a Helping Hand: A Guide to Facilitating Support Groups for Siblings of Children with Special Needs - Softcover

Ferstel, Olivia Von; Glenshaw, Bridget

 
9781460966549: Sibling Group Lends a Helping Hand: A Guide to Facilitating Support Groups for Siblings of Children with Special Needs
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1460966546 ISBN 13: 9781460966549
Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2012

Synopsis

For many children who have a brother or sister with special needs, the experience can be fraught with a wide range of emotions, from confusion to an overwhelming sense of responsibility. It can also develop a lens imbued with compassion and insight. Now, the co-founders of Sibling Group, an expressive art therapies based support group model, have created a compassionate, comprehensive guide to forming a Sibling Group that helps siblings cope with these conflicting feelings. Sibling Group Lends a Helping Hand is an indispensable resource to gain clinical insight into both the psychological and emotional dilemmas, as well as the extraordinary opportunities for compassion, relatedness, and growth. The reader will learn about the use of expressive arts therapies as applied to this unique support group format and gain confidence in communicating with siblings of children with special needs. Resources for other supports are included.

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About the Author

Olivia von Ferstel and Bridget Glenshaw are founders of Sibling Group at the Community Therapeutic Day School in Lexington, MA. As a licensed special education teacher and mental health counselor, von Ferstel has a bachelor's degree in psychology from Boston University and a master's degree in expressive arts therapies from Lesley University. Glenshaw is a psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapist who holds a master's degree in expressive arts therapies from Lesley University and completed post-graduate training at the Existential Psychoanalytic Therapy Institute. Their distinctive professional experience as former therapeutic teachers and current psychotherapy practitioners, offers an informed perspective of what siblings of children with special needs cope with and inspire.

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Publisher
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Publication date
2012
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1460966546
ISBN 13 
9781460966549
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
176