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Sibling Child

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The first article that I read was Sibling Cooperative and Externalizing Behaviors and Families Raising Children with Disabilities. The article starts off by explaining how more caregivers are taking care of their children with disabilities inside the home as well as taking care of their children that are typically developing. This article covers the effects on how the typically developing sibling or TDS is coping with their sibling with a disability inside the home, the burdens that the caregiver experiences, and what kind of parenting style works inside the home. Press article also covers family systems it stated that "family systems are interdependent and the family member's behavior is related not only to one's self but also to the behavior and interactions of other individuals and subsystems within the family." (Platt, Roper, Mandleco & Freeborn, 2014). This article also defined that a "care burden refers to the physical emotional, financial, mental, and …show more content…

This relationship is the first and longest peer relationship that siblings will have. The typically developing sibling who has a positive relationship with their sibling with a disability have higher levels of positive self-concept typically developing siblings who were not raised with a sibling or child with disabilities. In another article that they have conducted shows cooperative and externalizing behaviors that were examined.
It was also indicated that an article Mazaheri et al. (2013) saw increased levels of depression feelings of isolation, anger, and worry and not only parents but the typically developing sibling. There was also a report that typically developing children with affectionate sibling relationships are less likely to demonstrate negative behavior and experience a stressful life

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