In my last blog, I promised to share with you what some in the field know about siblings of children with chronic illness.
Only a few years ago, two Canadian researchers sifted through fifty-one published studies about siblings of children with a chronic illness. Overall, their most striking impression of the findings was that there was a lack of consensus on whether or not there was a negative psychological effect on the siblings.
Some of the studies showed siblings of children with...
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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Source: ADAM Encyclopedia
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