Psychological and academic adjustment in adopted children.

Brodzinsky, David M.; Schechter, Dianne; Braff, Anne M.; Singer, Leslie M.

doi:10.1037/0022-006x.52.4.582

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“…Young people in foster care are at extremely high risk for both psychiatric disorders and poor long-term functional outcomes (Berry, 1992;Brodzinsky, Schechter, Braff, & Singer, 1984;Deutsch, Swanson, Bruell, Cantwell, Weinberg, & Baren, 1982;Lipman, Offord, Boyle, & Racine, 1993;Simmel et al, 2001). While there are no psychiatric diagnoses unique to foster care, the frequency of early abuse and neglect in this population exposes children to a greater risk for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD).…”

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Psychosocial Treatment of Children in Foster Care: A Review

Racusin

Maerlender

Sengupta

et al. 2005

Community Ment Health J

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A substantial number of children in foster care exhibit psychiatric difficulties. Recent epidemiological and historical trends in foster care, clinical findings about the adjustment of children in foster care, and adult outcomes are reviewed, followed by a description of current approaches to treatment and extant empirical support. Available interventions for these children can be categorized as either symptom-focused or systemic, with empirical support for specific methods ranging from scant to substantial. Even with treatment, behavioral and emotional problems often persist into adulthood, resulting in poor functional outcomes. We suggest that self-regulation may be an important mediating factor in the appearance of emotional and behavioral disturbance in these children.

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Psychosocial Treatment of Children in Foster Care: A Review

Racusin

Maerlender

Sengupta

et al. 2005

Community Ment Health J

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“…Also, a majority of research in adoption have provided similar answers to the when, how, what and who questions (Ocón, 2007). The answers to who invariably points to the adoptive parents (Giberti, 1992, Colaner & Kranstuber, 2010, the answer to when points towards the age of two to five years old, and as the how and what, the common suggestion is that the information given has to be matched to the child´s cognitive development (Brodzinsky, Schechter, Braff & Singer, 1984). McRoy, Grotevant, Ayers López and Furuta, (1985) in a study about adoption revelation and communication issues, found that 84% of an adoptive young sample (11 to 17 years old at the time the research was performed) had problems adjusting to the adoptive status, including hostility, rejection, anger, confusion, disbelief and embarrassment upon learning about their adoption.…”

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Ex post-facto study of long-term stress in a sample of adoptees

2015

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Título: Estudio ex post-facto del estrés a largo plazo en una muestra de personas adoptadas. Resumen: En este trabajo estudiamos el impacto que el proceso de abandono y adopción tuvieron en sintomatología postraumática en una muestra de 55 adultos que fueron adoptados con anterioridad a 1970. También se ha estudiado el efecto de la institucionalización, el maltrato, la revelación traumática del estatus de adoptado y los acontecimientos vitales estresantes. No se han encontrado diferencias significativas entre adoptados que fueron institucionalizados y aquellos que no lo fueron en sintomatología postraumática. Sin embargo, los adoptados que sufrieron maltrato, revelación traumática y altos niveles de sucesos vitales estresantes puntuaron más alto de un modo significativo en intrusión y arousal que aquellos adoptados que respectivamente no sufrieron maltrato, ni revelación traumática y que sus niveles de acontecimientos vitales estresantes eran bajos. Revelación traumática, sola o en asociación con maltrato, parece jugar un importante papel en la sintomatología postraumática encontrada en la muestra estudiada. Palabras clave: Adopción; Institucionalización; Maltrato; Revelación traumática; Acontecimientos vitales estresantes; Sintomatología postraumá-tica. Abstract:In this work we study the impact of relinquishment and the adoption process in posttraumatic symptoms in a group of 55 adults that were adopted as children before 1970. The effects of institutionalization, maltreatment, traumatic revelation of the adopted status and stressful life events have also been studied. No significant differences were found between institutionalized and non-institutionalized adoptees in posttraumatic symptomatology. However, adoptees who suffered maltreatment, traumatic revelation and high level of stressful life events scored significantly higher in intrusion and arousal than those adoptees non-maltreated, without traumatic revelation and with low level of stressful life events respectively. Traumatic revelation, alone or in association with maltreatment, seems to play an important role in posttraumatic symptoms in the sample studied.

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“…Many studies have reported on adoption and level of depression (i.e., Borders, Penny, & Portnoy, 2000;Brodzinsky, Schechter, Braff, & Singer, 1984;Keyes et al, 2008), and have frequently found a somewhat higher rate of depression among adoptees. However, the main thrust of the analysis presented in this article is on suicidal ideation.…”

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