We can help families with stress by teaching the family about the nature and effects of stress, providing information that might strengthen parenting and decrease feelings of despair. Help the family working through the need to dispense blame for the illness, including self-blame, becoming well informed about the disease and treatment, developing a more realistic assessment of the medical care system and an ability to communicate with professionals, becoming the child’s advocate, and focusing on immediate treatment successes while maintaining a long-range perspective.
Sibling grief may involve extreme emotions and “negative behaviors when they are separate from their parents or hospitalized sibling” (Thompson, 2009, p. 225). Feelings of guilt,
Sibling grief may involve extreme emotions and “negative behaviors when they are separate from their parents or hospitalized sibling” (Thompson, 2009, p. 225). Feelings of guilt,