| Description |
xviii, 396 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: PART I: Theoretical Perspectives on Adoption Adjustment -- 1. A Stress and Coping Model of Adoption Adjustment, David M. Brodzinsky -- 2. Biologic Perspectives of Adoptee Adjustment, Remi J. Cadoret -- 3. Adoption from the Inside Out: a Psychoanalytic Perspective, Paul M. Brinich -- 4. The Meaning of the Search, Marshall E. Schechter and Doris Bertocci -- PART II: Research on Adoption -- 5. Outcomes in Adoption: Lessons from Longitudinal Studies, Michael Bohman and Soren Sigvardsson -- 6. Contrasting Adoption, Foster Care and Residential Rearing, John Triseliotis and Malcolm Hill -- 7. Acknowledgement or Rejection of Differences? Kenneth Kaye -- 8. Adoption and Identity Formation, Janet L. Hoopes -- 9. Adopted Adolescents in Residential Treatment: the Role of the Family, Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy -- 10. Adjustment in Interracial Adoptees: an Overview, Arnold R. Silverman and William Fiegelman -- 11. Adoption Disruption: Rates and Correlates, Trudy Festinger -- PART III. Clinical Issues in Adoption -- 12. Family Treatment after Adoption: Common Themes, Ann Hartman and Joan Laird -- 13. Solution-Focused Therapy with Adoptive Families, Judith Schaffer and Christina Lindstrom -- 14. The Residential Treatment of Severely Disturbed Adolescent Adoptees, Wells Goodrich, et al -- PART IV: Social Policy and Casework Issues in Adoption -- 15. History, Values, and Placement Policy Issues in Adoption, Elizabeth S. Cole and Kathryn S. Donley -- 16. Surrendering an Infant for Adoption: the Birthmother Experience, Anne B. Brodzinsky -- 17. Open Adoption, Anne Baran and Reuben Pannor -- 18. Foster Parent Adoption: The Legal Framework, Andre P. Derdeyn |
| Summary |
Recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological problems than their non-adopted peers. In this book, theoretical, empirical, clinical, and social policy issues offer new insights into these problems |
| Analysis |
Adoption Psychology |
|
United States |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-382) and index |
| Subject |
Adopted children -- United States -- Psychology.
|
|
Adoption -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
|
|
Adoption.
|
|
Psychological Aspects
|
|
Adoption.
|
|
Adoption -- psychology.
|
|
Adoption.
|
| Author |
Brodzinsky, David.
|
|
Schechter, Marshall D.
|
| LC no. |
89002902 |
| ISBN |
019504892X (alk. paper) |
|
0195082737 (paperback) |
|
