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Fostering Twins’ Identity Development: A Family Issue
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Families who have twins encounter unique needs and circumstances. Insight into issues twins encounter can improve parental and counseling treatment of twins as well as foster a healthy identity formation. These special issues that twins encounter will be addressed through the following: parenting influences, twin comparisons, sharing, competition, differentiation, bonding, empathy development, separation anxiety, identity development, and various recognized patterns of twinship. Through an understanding of twins’ specific needs and challenges, counselors can be influential in fostering a healthier family system.
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Scholars have emphasized the importance of counselors recognizing the distinctive issues faced by twins.
“Scholars have emphasized the importance of counselors recognizing the distinctive issues faced by twins (Klein, 2003(Klein, , 2012;;Noble et al., 2017).”
From Seeing Double: A Case Study Examining Systemic Supervision and Therapy Conceptualization of Identical Twins (2026) · cites this paper as Noble et al., 2017
Through counselors' efforts to increase twin clients' self-awareness of their unique twin relationship, therapists can facilitate improvements in identity development.
“Through counselors' efforts to increase twin clients' self-awareness of their unique twin relationship, therapists can facilitate improvements in identity development (Klein, 2003(Klein, , 2012;;Noble et al., 2017).”
From Seeing Double: A Case Study Examining Systemic Supervision and Therapy Conceptualization of Identical Twins (2026) · cites this paper as Noble et al., 2017
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- Authors
- Noble, N., Bradley, L., Parr, G., & Duemer, L.
- Affiliations
- Texas Tech University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Noble, Nicole
- Venue
- The Family Journal
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2017-09-12
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 345-350
- ISSN
- 1066-4807 (ISSN-L)
- 1552-3950
- OpenAlex
- W2755987970
- Cited by
- 15
- References
- 0
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 1 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 3 · 2019: 2
- FWCI
- 1.47
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- The Family Journal (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health › Assisted Reproductive Technology and Twin Pregnancy
- Social Sciences › Demography › Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- twins, identity construction, twinship, twin comparison, sibling competition, bonding, empathy development, separation anxiety, family systems
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