Description: In this volume David Brodzinsky and Marshall Schechter have brought together a group of leading researchers from various disciplines to explore the complex interdisciplinary subject of adoption. While recent work has shown that adopted children are more vulnerable to 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 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. Of interest to child psychiatrists, developmental and clinical psychologists, social workers, social service providers, and adoptive parents. Illustrations.

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