When Adoptions Go Wrong : Psychological and Legal Issues of Adoption Disruption

ISBN-13: 9780789031815 / Angielski / Twarda / 2006

Opis

What if you were an adopted child and someone tried to remove you from the family you had grown to love? In the last twenty years, changes in laws, judicial decisions, social welfare practices and the availability of American children for adoption have led to an increase in disrupted adoptions. "When Adoptions Go Wrong" examines the psychological and forensic aspects of adoption with an emphasis on how negative events can affect children and the families that choose to adopt them - and how you can prevent those events from happening.

Spis treści

• Foreword (Hon. Walter M. Schackman)
  
• Acknowledgments
  
• SECTION I: FAMILY PSYCHOLOGY ISSUES
  
• Chapter 1. Overview: Providing a Context
  
• Historical Background
  
• Malfunctions in Adoption
  
• Introducing the Adoptive Parents
  
• Tying Adoption to Adoption Disruption
  
• Chapter 2. Adoption Disruptions
  
• Types and Causes of Disruptions
  
• Summary
  
• Chapter 3. Other Causes Contributing to Adoption Disruptions
  
• Inadequate Social Services
  
• Focus on Foster Care
  
• Other Issues and Impediments
  
• Incompatibility of Child and Adoptive Parents
  
• Summary
  
• Chapter 4. Lives Disrupted
  
• Adoptions Dissolved
  
• On the Positive Side
  
• Summary
  
• Chapter 5. Effects of the Disruption
  
• Time for Therapy
  
• Restatement of Causes
  
• A Variety of Effects
  
• Summary
  
• SECTION II: LEGAL ISSUES: PRECEDENTS AND PREVENTION
  
• Chapter 6. In Whose “Best Interests”?
  
• “Open Adoption” and Disruption
  
• Professional Prevention and Intervention
  
• Summary
  
• Chapter 7. Where Do We Go From Here?
  
• Preventive Measures
  
• Laws Across the Land
  
• Recognition of Psychological versus Biological Parenting
  
• Summary
  
• Epilogue
  
• Notes
  
• References
  
• Index
  

O autorze

Lita Linzer Schwartz