The Psychology of Adoption - Hardcover

Brodzinsky, David M.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 019504892X ISBN 13: 9780195048926

Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc, 1990

Synopsis

Recent empirical work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to a host of psychological and school-related problems compared to their non-adopted peers. 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. However, our understanding of the basis of these problems remains unclear. David Brodzinsky has conducted one of the largest studies of adopted children. Along with Marshall Schechter, a child psychiatrist, he has brought together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex, interdisciplinary subject of adoption. Theoretical, empirical, clinical, and social policy issues offer new insights into the problems facing parents of adopted children and especially the children themselves. The book is a comprehensive study and will be of interest to child psychiatrists, developmental and clinical psychologists, social workers, and social service providers.

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Review:

Brodzinsky and Schechter's valuable collection of papers help provide a more reliable base to our understanding of adoption, and our interventions with adoptees and their families. It is good to have this in paperback. (Brian Minty, Psychological Medicine, Vol. 27, 1997)

About the Author:

David M. Brodzinsky is Associate Professor, Developmental and Clinical Psychology, Rutgers University. Marshall D. Schechter is Professor Emeritus, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine.

About this edition

• Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 019504892X
• ISBN 13: 9780195048926
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 414