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Support for Siblings of St. Jude Patients
Helping siblings is an important part of patient family-centered care at St. Jude.
When your child or teen has a serious illness, it affects the whole family. This includes your child’s siblings (brothers and sisters).
Siblings of a St. Jude patient can face many challenges, including:
- Long separations from the patient or caregiver
- Visits to a hospital they do not know
- Changes in routine
St. Jude child life specialists can help siblings cope with these challenges.
How child life specialists can help siblings
- Learn about the child’s illness and treatment
- Prepare for medical procedures that your child might have
- Prepare for medical procedures where the siblings might have to help your child (for example, donating bone marrow to the patient)
- Tour the hospital
- Get to know other children their age
- Stay in touch with their brother or sister in the hospital
- Cope with feelings
- Feel like they are still an important part of the family
Learn more
Contact Child Life
Child Life Department
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital|
MS 121, Room B2095
262 Danny Thomas Place
Memphis, TN 38105-3678
Phone: 901-595-3020
Fax: 901-595-2690
childlife.info@stjude.org