C R D S
My research is about the capacities and complexities of caregiving families and I am especially interested in the nature and potential of support provided by adult siblings. Much of our understanding of families, including caregiving that occurs within families, has been built on the study of relationships between generations (parent-child) rather than within generations (sibling). Adult sibling relationships, being at once obligatory and voluntary, provide a valuable framework for viewing support within families as a resource that is vital, yet not to be assumed as automatically forthcoming. The study of sibling support enables us to simultaneously celebrate and challenge idealized views of harmonious, caring families.
PROJECTS UNDERWAY:
Navigating identity: Life with a sibling with a disability
Understanding sibling capacity to support adults with disabilities and mental health issues
Caring for mother: Aspirations of ultra-poor Bangladeshi women versus middle class Alberta women (Co-investigator Lynn McIntyre, University of Calgary)
Mask making in post secondary education: A case for student engagement (Co- investigators Jenny McGrath and Maria Smyth, Grant MacEwan University)
PROJECTS IN DEVELOPMENT
Healthy and successful aging for people with pre-existing disabilities: The importance of understanding and building sibling support capacity (Co-investigators Marian Donly, Developmental Disabilities Resource Centre and Jody Nicholson, Vegreville Association for Living in Dignity)
Older adults at risk: The interpersonal context (with Principal Investigator Janet Fast, University of Alberta)
Lashewicz, B. (revised and submitted). Care work versus career work: Sibling conflict over getting priorities straight. WORK: A Journal of Prevention, Assessment and Rehabilitation.
Lashewicz, B., McGrath, J. & Smyth, M. (submitted). Mask making in post secondary classrooms: A case for student engagement. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education.
Lashewicz, B. (in press). “My sisters are the problem in this family. In A. Sev’er & J. Trost (Eds.), Skeletons in family closets: A sociological analysis of narrations of unresolved family conflict.
Lashewicz, B., Keating, N. & Phelan, J. (2009). Undue Influence as a family affair. Canadian Journal of Family and Youth, 2 (1), 1-23.
Lashewicz, B. & Keating, N. (2009). Tensions among siblings in parent care. European Journal of Ageing, 6, 127-135.
Lashewicz, B., Manning, G., Hall, M., & Keating, N. (2007). Equity matters: Doing fairness in the context of family caregiving. Canadian Journal on Aging, 26 (supp 1), 91-102.
Eales, J., Keating, N., & Prior (Lashewicz), B. (2002, March). Sustaining care at home in small rural communities. Final report to the New Rural Economy, Concordia University, Montreal, QC. Edmonton, AB: Authors.
Lashewicz, B. (2008). Review of “The emotional survival guide for caregivers” by Barry
Jacobs. Canadian Journal on Aging, 27 (1), pp. 119-120.