Možnosti intervence a podpory u sourozenců dětí s postižením – skupinové terapeuticko-edukační programy
Possibilities of intervention and support for siblings of children with disabilities - a group therapeutic-educational programs

Author(s): David Havelka
Subject(s): Developmental Psychology, Inclusive Education / Inclusion
Published by: Masarykova univerzita nakladatelství
Keywords: group therapeutic-educational program; typically developing sibling of child with disability;
Summary/Abstract: One of the big contemporary issues and challenges of social system transformation from institutional to community care is finding the way of supporting and working with primary social environment of child with the disability. A number of studies highlights that one of the long-term neglected groups are siblings of children with a disability (Naylor & Prescott, 2004). This is a significant drawback of the current social care system, because these children express the desire to obtain information and understand the brother´s/sister´s disability (Dyson, 1998), and they often care for the sibling on a daily basis. Moreover the presence of the disease in family system can have a number of negative impacts such as difficulties in adaptation, problem behaviour and decrease in overall quality of life (Sharpe, 2002). One of the intervention possibilities focusing on siblings of children with disabilities are group therapeutic-educational programs successfully proved abroad, however, these are almost non-existent in Czech Republic (e.g. Lobato & Kao, 2005). The aim of this contribution is to present forms of organization, content and outputs of such programs, as published in scholarly journals and applied in foreign practice (especially in Great Britain).

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