Adopted Adolescents' Overrepresentation in Mental Health Counseling: Adoptees' Problems or Parents' Lower Threshold for Referral?

Review: Adoption research: Trends, topics, outcomes

“…More recent studies, however, have added another perspective to this conclusion. Both Warren (1992) and Miller, Fan, Grotevant, Christensen, Coyle, et al (2000) found that adopted children's overrepresentation in outpatient clinical settings was not only due to a higher rate of psychological problems, but also to the propensity of adoptive parents to more readily use mental health services, especially when emotional and behavioral problems are still at a relatively low level.…”

Mountains, Mormonism, Marriage, and Family

“…My collaboration with Hal Grotevant and other colleagues to analyze the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (AD Health) is beginning to produce some important insight about the adjustment of adopted adolescents (Miller, Fan, Christensen, Coyl, & Grotevant, 2000;Miller, Fan, Christensen, Grotevant, & van Dulman, 2000). It has been interesting (and refreshingly honest) to observe how the social scientific approach has shifted from denying the values and biases of investigators to recognizing that values are inherent in all of our work.…”

Relation Problems in Internationally Adopted Juvenile Delinquents

“…Studies on adoption have highlighted adopted children's and adolescents' increased risk of psychological problems [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. However, adoption research does not provide clear answers to the question about whether or not adopted children and adolescents have more problems than non-adopted children [11,15], and there may be discrepancy in the results due to small clinical samples or samples biased by self-selection [16].…”