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Children's Adjustment to Adoption

Developmental and Clinical Issues

Auteur Brodsinsky David
Categorie anderstalig
Isbn 9780761905165

A significant contribution to understanding the effects of adoption, Children's Adjustment to Adoption presents major issues that affect both the process and outcome of adoption for children and their parents.  It begins with a historical and contemporary perspective on adoption and then focuses on the various theories that have addressed the issue of psychological risk associated with adoption.
Extensive coverage is provided on the adjustment of children and parents to adoption itself and on the psychological development of children, including adjustment and maladjustment over the course of childhood and adolescence.  Children whose adoptions emerge from such circumstances as child abuse, parental drug use, and parental HIV are closely examined, as are adoptions across racial and cultural lines.  This volume offers extensive coverage of theory and research on children and families and the contextual issues pertinent to the adoption process, with clinical vignettes punctuating key points.  The authors close with a discussion of intervention and assessment issues that commonly arise when working with adoptees and their families.

Children's Adjustment to Adoption is a welcome addition to the current literature on the psychological issues associated with adoption.  It will be valuable for professionals in the fields of clinical and counseling psychology, developmental psychology, nursing, social work, health services, and family studies.

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