The Psychology of AdoptionDavid M. Brodzinsky Associate Professor of Developmental and Clinical Psychology Rutgers University, Marshall D. Schechter Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine (Emeritus) Oxford University Press, USA, Apr 12, 1990 - 416 pages In this volume David Brodzinsky, who has conducted one of the nation's largest studies of adopted children, and Marshall Schechter, a noted child psychiatrist who has been involved with adoption related issues for over forty years, have brought together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex interdisciplinary subject of adoption. While recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their nonadopted peers, and that the rate of referral of adopted children to mental-health facilities is far above what would be expected given their representation in the general population, our understanding of the basis for these problems remains unclear. In this book, theoretical, empirical, clinical, and social policy issues offer new insights into the problems facing parents of adopted children, and especially the children themselves. A comprehensive study, The Psychology of Adoption will be of interest to child psychiatrists, developmental and clinical psychologists, social workers, social service providers, and adoptive parents. |
Contents
A Stress and Coping Model of Adoption Adjustment | 3 |
Biologic Perspectives of Adoptee Adjustment | 25 |
The Meaning of the Search | 62 |
Contrasting Adoption Foster Care | 107 |
Acknowledgment or Rejection of Differences? | 121 |
Adoption and Identity Formation | 144 |
Rates and Correlates | 201 |
Brief SolutionFocused Therapy | 240 |
The Residential Treatment of Severely | 253 |
History Values and Placement Policy Issues | 273 |
Open Adoption | 316 |
The Legal Framework | 332 |
References | 349 |
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