Cognitive-Behavior Interventions for Adult Sibling Issues

Abstract

Cognitive-behavior intervention with adult sibling issues is used when the focus of treatment is repairing the contentious sibling relationships of clients. As examined in the next chapter, the integration of sibling issues in treatment can also be used when the presenting problem of a client is not sibling-linked as a means to gain insight into the way past sibling tensions may be permeating psychological well-being more broadly. In these situations, the sibling tensions and their consequences are obscured and need to be assessed and examined using psychodynamic approaches.