When parents refuse to, or cannot, participate in family therapy, working with just the siblings (Sibling Therapy) offers one way to help troubled children. When parents offer inconsistent or inadequate nurturing, seeing the children together allows development or strengthening of bonds among them and teaches them how to be available to each…

Interviews with 21 children of lesbians in greater Boston area, ranging in age from 9 to 26, identified several major issues. Problems experienced involved parents' divorce and disclosure of mother's homosexuality. Problems between mother and children were secondary to the issue of children's respect for difficult step she had taken. (Author/NRB)

Describes sibling therapy as a therapy which combines aspects from both group and family therapy, yet which offers treatment possibilities not available to either. Three similar concepts, goals, stages, and interventions are described, with clinical examples of each. (Author)

Describes a variable color-coding system which has been added to the standard family genogram in which characteristics or issues associated with a particular presenting problem or for a particular family are arbitrarily assigned a color. Presents advantages of color-coding, followed by clinical examples. (Author/ABL)