Pavao Joyce Maguire, St John Melissa, Cannole Rebecca Ford, Fischer Tara, Maluccio Anthony, Peining Suzanne
Center For Family Connections, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02141, USA.
Child Welfare. 2007 Mar-Apr;86(2):13-30.
The growing literature on sibling relationships throughout their lifespans is of great importance to those working in the child welfare system, and in adoption services in particular. Sibling bonds are important to all of us, but they are particularly vital to children from disorganized or dysfunctional families. These relationships assume even greater importance when children from these families enter the care system. Supporting and sustaining these sibling bonds should be, and most often is, a priority throughout the child welfare system, with practice literature providing guidelines for arranging and sustaining sibling contact. However, children in the care system may also have dysfunctional sibling relationships as a result of their early experiences, and sibling visitation alone may not be enough to ensure a healthy, long-lasting relationship among siblings. Some form of sibling therapy, or 'clinically supervised visitation,' may be required to help children remove the barriers to form mutually satisfying relationships and to reinforce life-long relationships with each other.
关于兄弟姐妹关系在其整个生命周期中的文献日益增多，这对儿童福利系统，尤其是收养服务领域的工作人员极为重要。兄弟姐妹关系对我们所有人都很重要，但对来自混乱或功能失调家庭的孩子来说尤为关键。当这些家庭的孩子进入照料系统时，这些关系的重要性更加凸显。支持并维系这些兄弟姐妹关系应该且通常是整个儿童福利系统的优先事项，实践文献也提供了安排和维持兄弟姐妹联系的指导方针。然而，由于早期经历，照料系统中的儿童也可能存在功能失调的兄弟姐妹关系，仅靠兄弟姐妹探视可能不足以确保兄弟姐妹之间建立健康、持久的关系。可能需要某种形式的兄弟姐妹治疗，即“临床监督下的探视”，以帮助孩子们消除建立相互满意关系的障碍，并加强彼此间的终身关系。
