Siblings: How to handle sibling rivalry to create strong and loving bonds - Softcover

Blair, Linda

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1910336254 ISBN 13: 9781910336250

Publisher: White Ladder, 2018

Synopsis

Written by a clinical psychologist with over 25 years' experience of family therapy, this book arms parents with the tools and advice needed to create positive sibling relationships. Highly practical, and based solidly in clinical research, Siblings not only describes the issues which parents may face but gives them methods and specific strategies to help their children.

Linda Blair takes a positive approach to this subject – instead of trying to eliminate the natural rivalry that occurs or strive for an unrealistic idyll of a calm, non-confrontational household, she teaches parents how to use sibling interactions to build emotional intelligence and good social skills, through a framework of core principles parents can follow.

‘I consider sibling relationships to be the best set-up we have for teaching our children to become emotionally sensitive. Sibling rivalry is not some sort of evolutionary mistake! It's unavoidable and universal. By coming to understand more about it, you'll no doubt stop dreading those occasions when they confront one another, and start instead to welcome the opportunities to help your children develop more fully.'

Siblings helps parents understand and best manage this often tumultuous relationship, guiding you through potential issues you may encounter – from the powerful effect that age gap and birth order have to the role parents play in creating or dissolving sibling rivalry. Linda uses helpful flashpoints to tackle issues head on and give direct advice, through her years of clinical practice.

About this title

About the Author

Linda Blair's career was mapped out for her from an early age. In elementary school in her home town of Topeka, Kansas, she was cast as a psychiatrist in her first play. Armed with a love of words and of trying to understand what makes us the way we are, she later moved to Boston where she studied psychology at Wellesley College, graduating Phi Beta Kappa.

Linda then moved to England to work with zoologists at the University of Cambridge, studying mother-infant relationships in rhesus monkeys. When she was awarded a full scholarship to study for her PhD in child psychology at Harvard, she moved back to the US.

Linda trained as a clinical psychologist at the Institute of Psychiatry in London and has worked as a clinical psychologist for over 35 years. During those years she also developed her skills as an author, journalist, broadcaster and speaker.

Linda has written five books and pens a regular column for the Daily Telegraph, broadcasts on radio, appears on TV, and is in demand an event and festival speaker.

About this edition

• Publisher: White Ladder
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1910336254
• ISBN 13: 9781910336250
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256