Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan

<p><em>Sibling Loss Across the Lifespan</em> brings together researchers, clinicians, and bereaved siblings to explore sibling loss. Unique in both form and content, the book focuses on loss within five key age ranges—childhood, adolescence, emerging adulthood, adulthood, and late adulthood—and losses within a special topics section that addresses areas of interest across multiple age groups. In addition to chapters from researchers and clinicians, the book includes personal stories from bereaved siblings who describe the lived experience of this loss.</p> <p>Series Editor’s Foreword Foreword <em>Kenneth J. Doka</em> Preface <em>Brenda J. Marshall and Howard R. Winokuer </em>Editor Biographies Contributors<em> </em>Theoretical Models Guiding our Understanding of Sibling Bereavement <em>David W. Kissane and Nadine A. Kasparian</em> <strong>Section One: Childhood (Birth-11) </strong>1. Shadows in the Sun: Towards Understanding the Grief of Young Siblings <em>Betty Davies </em>2. Why Did My Sister Have to Die? Helping Children with Sibling Death <em>Linda Goldman </em>3. Growing Up Grieving <em>Alicia Sims Franklin </em>4. A Brother’s Loss <em>Christopher Lourenco </em><strong>Section Two: Adolescence (12-17) </strong>5. Adolescent Sibling Lossavement <em>David E. Balk, Corinne Cavuoti, and Anne M. Smith </em>6. Bereaved Adolescent Siblings: The Forgotten Mourners <em>Jennifer Kaplan Schreiber 7</em>. Michelle’s Story <em>Rose Planer </em>8. Losing My Brother at Fourteen <em>Elizabeth DeVita-Raeburn </em><strong>Section Three: Emerging Adulthood (18-30) </strong>9. Living the Moment….Envisioning the Future <em>Ann Laverty </em>10. Making Clinical Sense of Sibling Bereavement: <i>Ordinary People</i> as a Case Study <em>Simon Shimshon Rubin </em>11. The Happiness of Moving Forward: Sibling Suicide Loss Twenty Years Later <em>Michelle L. Rusk </em>12. Brother and Sister Always <em>Rayna Vaught Godfrey </em><strong>Section Four: Adulthood (31-59) </strong>13. Sibling Loss in Adulthood: Narrative Reflections <em>Brenda J. Marshall </em>14. While the World Mourned a Hero, I Mourned my Murdered Brother: The Case of Barbara, a Bereaved 9/11 Sibling <em>Cori Bussolari and H</em><em>eidi Horsley </em>15. Honoring Donna <em>Lyn Prashant </em>16. On My Only Brother’s Death <em>H.D. ("De") Kirkpatrick </em><b>Section Five: Late Adulthood (60 plus) </b>17. Clinical Issues Related to Sibling Loss in Older Adulthood <em>Jason M. Holland and Vincent Rozalski </em>18. A Letter to my Brother <em>Carol L. Sachs </em>19. The Death of a Sister and a Brother <em>Gloria Horsley </em><strong>Section Six: Special Topics </strong>20. Sibling Grief After Suicide <em>Diana C. Sands </em>21. Sibling Grief and Its Effect on the Family System <em>Kathleen R. Gilbert and R</em><em>ebecca J. Gilbert </em>22. The Impact on Siblings When a Parent Dies <em>Howard R. Winokuer </em>23. Disappearance, not Death: The Ambiguous Loss of a Missing Sibling <em>Pauline Boss and Patty Wetterling </em>24. The Dirt on Sibling Grief: A Look at Bereavement Camps <em>Tina Barrett and Molly Pickett </em>25. Epilogue <em>Brenda J. Marshall and Howard R. Winokuer</em> Index </p>