| Description |
1 online resource (278 p.) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- About the Author -- Chapter 1: Introduction: History of Adoption -- Right and Law -- UN Convention on the Rights of the Child -- References -- Chapter 2: Self Development and Parenthood -- Self-Development -- True and False Self -- Time and Temporality in Childhood and Adolescence -- Adolescence -- Parenthood -- Early Parent-Child Relationship -- Early Relationship Disorders -- Childless Couples with a Desire for Children -- Introduction -- Disappointed Longing -- Grief -- Adoption or Reproductive Medicine |
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Parenthood by Medically Assisted Reproduction -- Reproductive Medicine and Adoption -- Parenthood by Surrogacy -- Parenthood by Adoption -- Parenthood by Sexual and Gender Minorities -- Parenthood of Foster Children -- Adoption of Older Children -- Adjustment Dynamics -- Symptomatic Behavior -- Loyalty Versus Disloyalty -- Questioning the New Affective Ties -- The Family System -- Parental Adjustment -- Marital Relationship -- Suggestions for New Parents Adopting an Older Child -- References -- Chapter 3: Stress and Pain -- Stress -- Introduction -- Neurobiological Responses to Stress |
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Psychobiological Effects of Stressful Experiences -- Three Different Types of Stress Reactions in Young Children -- Stress at Different Ages -- Prenatal Stress -- Stress in Infancy -- Stress in Separation Situations -- Pain -- Neurobiological Aspects of Pain -- Pain and Stress Processing -- Pain and Attachment -- References -- Chapter 4: Adoption Studies -- Genetic and Environmental Factors -- Risk and Protective Factors -- Early Versus Late Adoption -- Investigations on Adopted Romanian Orphans -- Attachment Disorders -- Autistic Disorders |
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The Mental Health Long-Term Outcomes of Young Adopted Adults -- Summary -- Epidemiological Studies -- Summary -- Domestic, International, Transracial or Transcultural Adoptions -- Summary -- Open Adoption -- Controversial Results of Clinical Studies -- Disadvantages and Differences of Open Adoption -- Adoption Disruption and Dissolution -- Relationship Dissolution or Divorce in Adoptive Parents or Same-Sex Parent Couples -- Outlook -- References -- Chapter 5: Adoption Triangle: Biological Parents-Child-Adoptive Parents -- Biological Parents -- Biological Mothers -- Biological Fathers |
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Adoptive Parents -- Motivations -- Transition from the Imaginary to the Real Child -- Edward Franklin Albee (1928-2016) American Playwright -- The Adopted Child -- Development in Adolescence -- Siblings -- Biological Children -- Adoption of Siblings -- References -- Chapter 6: Filiation Breakup -- Psychic Trauma -- Introduction -- Difference Between Extra- and Intrafamilial Trauma -- Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) -- Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD) -- Concepts of Trauma -- Neurobiological Aspects -- Psychobiological Aspects -- Cumulative Trauma -- Assessment of a Traumatic Situation |
| Summary |
This book addresses the psychosocial complexities of adoption from multiple perspectives, including the biological family, adopted child, and adoptive parents. It highlights the must-have sensitivity and tactfulness for recurring discussions of the adoption situation. Organized into 10 parts, the book begins with a brief outline of the history of adoption and its legal status from antiquity to modern times. Chapters in the first half of the book examine critical topics such as different parenthood situations, stress and pain processes in early childhood, and challenges of domestic, international, transcultural, transracial, foster, and sexual and gender minorities adoption. Within the second half of the book, chapters describe the birth parents' difficulties in relinquishing their infant, the motives of the adoptive parents, and the hardships of the adoptive children in self-development. The final chapters address the topic of deprivation, traumatization, and developmental trauma disorders on a psychodynamic level accompanied by clinical vignettes. Unique, perceptive, and insightful, Adoption, A Life Long Process is an essential resource for all of those involved in the adoption process, including counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, adoptive parents, and biological parents |
| Notes |
Symptoms and Characteristics of Psychic Traumatization |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed August 15, 2023) |
| Subject |
Adoption -- Psychological aspects
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Psychotherapy.
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Adoption -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychotherapy.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783031330384 |
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3031330382 |
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