Adaptación psicosocial en niños adoptados internacionalmente: percepción personal y parental

Reinoso, Marta; Forns, María

doi:10.1016/j.anpedi.2011.08.001

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“…Regarding our first objective, we found that a large proportion of the adoptees in our sample are psychologically well-adjusted and seem to function quite well in adolescence. These findings converge with other studies carried out in our country with school-aged children (Barcons et al, 2014;Reinoso & Forns, 2012). They also concur with studies conducted in other countries which found that the rate of behavioral problems in adopted teenagers is modest, indicating that, as a group, international adoptees are generally socio-emotionally welladjusted (Bimmel et al, 2003;Hjern et al, 2002;Juffer & Van IJzendoorn, 2005).…”

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“…Similar results were found in the adopted population in Spain. The majority of adopted children in our country achieves a standardized adaptation level (Barcons et al, 2014;Palacios & S anchez, 1996), but some show higher rates in inattention and hyperactivity symptoms (Ber astegui, 2007;Palacios & S anchez, 1996), more difficulties in adjustment to school (Reinoso & Forns, 2012), and higher insecure attachment patterns (Barcons et al, 2012).…”

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Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally Adopted Adolescents

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Mercadal

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J of Research on Adolesc

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This study evaluated the predictive relationship between the communicative openness and psychological adjustment of adopted adolescents, controlling for preplacement risk factors. One hundred Spanish international adoptees aged 12-18 took part in the study. Data were gathered with a structured interview, the Youth Self Report and the Adoption Communication Scale. A history of maltreatment prior to the adoption was associated with more closed communication between parents and children. Prenatal drug exposure shows a relationship with the presence of externalizing behaviors and attention problems in adolescents. Finally, a lower degree of communicative openness regarding the child's origins was significantly associated with the presence of all the adolescent behavioral problems studied.

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Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally Adopted Adolescents

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Mercadal

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“…Even though internationally adopted children face with multiple stressors and challenges in their lives, our study has shown that adoptees are generally well-adjusted, regardless of gender or age (see Reinoso & Forns 2011, for results of the whole sample; see also Van IJzendoorn & Juffer 2006;Juffer et al 2011). Children who felt less in control over their adoption-related problem, showed more adaptive skills.…”

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“…In the present study, we included 68 participants from a larger sample of internationally adopted children (see Reinoso & Forns 2011) for whom complete data on their adoption was available.The children (42 girls and 26 boys) ranged in age from 8 to 12 years old, with a mean age of 9.59 years (standard deviation [SD] = 1.28). The adopted children were from the following countries of origin: 29 (43%) from Asia (China, India and Nepal), 20 (29%) from Eastern Europe (Bulgaria, Russia and Ukraine), 10 (15%) from Africa (Burkina Faso, Cameroon and Ethiopia), and nine (13%) from Central and South America (Brazil, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Mexico and Panama).…”

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Internationally adopted children's general and adoption‐specific stressors, coping strategies and psychological adjustment

Reinoso

Pereda²,

Dries

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Child & Family Social Work

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A B S T R AC TWe examined stress, coping and psychological adjustment of 68 children, aged 8-12, who were internationally adopted to Spain. Using the Kidcope, all children were asked about the most stressful general and adoption-related problem they experienced and the use and effectiveness of various coping strategies when dealing with the problem. For all reported problems, the nature of the problem (personal, interpersonal, regarding others), the content, the degree of stress it created and its perceived controllability were analysed. Emotional and behavioural functionings were assessed with the Behaviour Assessment System for Children. About half of the children mentioned specific problems concerning the adoption, with inracial adoptees reporting less adoption-related problems than transracial adoptees. For general and adoption-related problems, interpersonal problems were mentioned most often. With regard to the content, 'relationships' and 'victimization' were mentioned most often for general and adoption-related problems, respectively. Adoptionrelated problems were appraised as less controllable. No differences emerged in terms of coping with general or adoption-related problems except for 'self-criticism'. Overall, the children used many coping strategies and were generally well-adjusted. Identifying the problems and coping strategies of adoptees is important in order to help these children and their families tackle these stressors. I N T R O D U C T I O NSpain is the second country in the world, after the US, in terms of number of internationally adopted children (Selman 2009). In Spain, both international and domestic adoptions coexist, although the former are considerably more preponderant than the latter (Palacios & Amorós 2006). At their peak in 2004, the number of intercountry adoptions reached up to 5541. Despite a sharp decline since then, following the downward trend for most receiving countries, the number of children adopted internationally is still significant (Selman 2009 Spain, research in this area is limited, especially for children in middle childhood. In Spain the population of adoptees in middle childhood and adolescence is still rather small, as international adoption only started in 1996, after the ratification of the Hague convention. In recent years, the first studies on the psychological adjustment of this subgroup have started to appear (e.g. Barni et al. 2008;Reinoso & Forns 2011;Barcons-Castel et al. 2011), but research focussing on adoptees' own experiences is still lacking. There are, however, a few exceptions. In a previous study on the current sample we explored the perceptions of adoption for the first time (Reinoso et al. 2013). The present paper complements our previous work by examining stress, coping and psychological adjustment of these children. Stress in adopted childrenAdopted children often experience hardship at the beginning of their lives, including separation from their biological parents, institutional rearing, malnutrition, deprivation, insufficient medical ...

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Communication about Origins and Search in Adoption: A Parental Perspective

Martín,

Barrera-Aguilera,

Corral

2023

Adoption Quarterly

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Adaptación psicosocial en niños adoptados internacionalmente: percepción personal y parental

Cited by 5 publications

References 21 publications

Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally Adopted Adolescents

Influence of Communicative Openness on the Psychological Adjustment of Internationally Adopted Adolescents

Internationally adopted children's general and adoption‐specific stressors, coping strategies and psychological adjustment

Communication about Origins and Search in Adoption: A Parental Perspective

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