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Again, not something I would suggest - the average priest / rector / vicar / whatever probably isn't trained sufficiently to cope with exorcisms, and if you think about it, a benediction is really just a well-wishing (bene- meaning good, -diction meaning something said, so effectively it's just some kind words said in the vain hope that it will all just go away ).
I know perfectly well what "benediction" means. And a benediction is what I mean. I assume that in the room there's not a spirit nor a presence.. just a little stagnation of fear or another nasty mindless emotion.
An axorcism is a damn BIG thing, more dangerous than useful. People can die in an exorcism.. and NOT for the devil-inside (I don't believe in devils. Their existence is purely illogical), but only for the big charghe of expectations, fear, panic, force of faith, and similar thing that everyone of us can feel in a dramatic emotional storm. The "believing" is the power.
If your brother still believe there's a ghost in his room and his ghost is dangerous and evil.. well, probabily it will become so.
A benediction is little, harmless, gentle like a caress. it will swept the "dirty waves" without harms. The importance is the presence of the boy.
If you make something for his ghost-something-problem and he doesn't know, probabily the "ghost" will haunt him for very long.
You are not a religious person? Is not a problem! Call a person you (and your brother) make feel you safer and better and asks him/her to visit the room and leave a sign of his/her presence of "benevolence". It would be enought.
