Research Catalog

Title

The Psychology of adoption / edited by David M. Brodzinsky, Marshall D. Schechter.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Brodzinsky, David
• Schechter, Marshall D.

Description

xviii, 396 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

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.

Subject

• Psychologie
• Adoptivkind
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Adoption
• Adoption > Psychological aspects
• Adopted children > Psychology
• Adoption > États-Unis > Aspect psychologique
• Enfants adoptés > États-Unis > Psychologie
• Adoptiefkinderen
• Psychologische aspecten
• Adoption > psychology
• Adoption
• USA
• United States
• Adoption Psychology

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-382) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

pt. I: Theoretical perspectives on adoption adjustment. A stress and coping model of adoption adjustment / David M. Brodzinsky -- Biologic perspectives of adoptee adjustment / Remi J. Cadoret -- Adoption from the inside out : a psychoanalytic perspective / Paul M. Brinich -- The meaning of the search / Marshall D. Schechter and Doris Bertocci -- pt. II: Research on adoption. Outcome in adoption : lessons from longitudinal studies / Michael Bohman and Sören Sigvardsson -- Contrasting adoption, foster care, and residential rearing / John Triseliotis and Malcolm Hill -- Acknowledgement or rejection of differences? / Kenneth Kaye -- Adoption and identity formation / Janet L. Hoopes -- Adopted adolescents in residential treatment : the role of the family / Harold D. Grotevant and Ruth G. McRoy -- Adjustment in interracial adoptees : an overview / Arnold R. Silverman and William Fiegelman -- Adoption disruption : rates and correlates / Trudy Festinger -- pt. III: Clinical issues in adoption. Family treatment after adoption : common themes / Ann Hartman and Joan Laird -- Brief solution-focused therapy with adoptive families / Judith Schaffer and Christina Lindstrom -- The residential treatment of severely disturbed adolescent adoptees / Wells Goodrich, Carol S. Fullerton, Brian T. Yates, and Linda Beth Berman -- pt. IV: Social policy and casework issues in adoption. History, values, and placement policy issues in adoption / Elizabeth S. Cole and Kathryn S. Donley -- Surrendering an infant for adoption : the birthmother experience / Anne B. Brodzinsky -- Open adoption / Annette Baran and Reuben Pannor -- Foster parent adoption : the legal framework / Andre P. Derdeyn.

ISBN

• 019504892X (alk. paper)
• 9780195048926 (alk. paper)
• 0195082737
• 9780195082739

LCCN

^^^89002902^

OCLC

• 19125471
• SCSB-10775869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library