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Direct linkPryor, Christin; Pettinelli, J. Douglas – Journal of Ethnographic & Qualitative Research, 2011
The international adoption entrance story is an unexplored topic in the adoption literature. The stories that families tell of beginning life with their new children has important implications for the development of an autobiographical narrative of an adopted child. A coherent autobiographical narrative is vital for healthy childhood development.…
Descriptors: Adoption, Personal Narratives, Autobiographies, Child Development
Marshall, Peter J.; Kenney, Justin W. – Developmental Review, 2009
There is much current interest in how adverse experiences early in life might affect certain elements of physiological, behavioral, and psychological functioning across the lifespan. Recent conceptual frameworks for studying the effects of early experience have involved constructs such as experience-expectant, experience-dependent, and…
Descriptors: Children, Adoption, Early Experience, Foster Care
Nickman, Steven L.; Rosenfeld, Alvin A.; Fine, Paul; MacIntyre, James C.; Pilowsky, Daniel J.; Howe, Ruth-Arlene; Derdeyn, Andre; Gonzales, Mayu Bonoan; Forsythe, Linda; Sveda, Sally A. – Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
Objective: To summarize the past 10 years of published research concerning the 2% of American children younger than 18 years old who are adoptees. Method: Review recent literature on developmental influences, placement outcome, psychopathology, and treatment. Results: Adoption carries developmental opportunities and risks. Many adoptees have…
Descriptors: Placement, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychopathology, Developmental Delays
Julian, Megan M. – Clinical Child and Family Psychology Review, 2013
One of the major questions of human development is how early experience impacts the course of development years later. Children adopted from institutional care experience varying levels of deprivation in their early life followed by qualitatively better care in an adoptive home, providing a unique opportunity to study the lasting effects of early…
Descriptors: Children, Age, Adoption, Disadvantaged Environment
Peer reviewedSlowik, Madeline Gates – Child Welfare, 1988
A conference on bonding and attachment attended by professionals and foster and adoptive parents was followed by a questionnaire survey of participants which was designed to measure effectiveness. A follow-up survey was conducted six months later. Professionals and parents benefited from combined training sessions. (BB)
Descriptors: Adoption, Attachment Behavior, Child Caregivers, Child Development
National Foundation for Consumer Credit, Silver Spring, MD. – 1990
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (PL 96-272) provided major federal initiatives to reform the state child welfare system. The goals of the act were to keep families together by providing them with services and to find permanent adoptive homes for children who could not be reunited with their parents. This report examines the…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Child Abuse, Child Development
