Preparation, support, and satisfaction of adoptive families in agency and independent adoptions

Article Abstract:

Families adopting children from private agencies in the US show high levels of satisfaction, because the agencies play a crucial role in preparing them for the adoption. Public agencies do not fare well in comparison with private agencies and independent agents. Yet, the levels of satisfaction among public agency adoptions, which often concerns a child with a troubled history or special needs, are fairly high. The parents adopting infants report more complete preparation and higher satisfaction level for private agencies adoptions compared to independent adoptions.

Psychological aspects, Evaluation, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Adoption agencies

---

Adoptee dissimilarity from the adoptive family: clinical practice and research implications

Article Abstract:

A review of adoption literature covering categories of identity development, searching for birth families, adoption satisfaction and overall adjustment indicated a relationship between dissimilarity and the given categories. An adopted individual's attempts to determine his identity will cover a relationship between adoptee dissimilarity and searching.

Research, Children, Adopted, Adopted children, Adoptees

---

Using cumulative risk to screen for mental health problems in child welfare

Article Abstract:

A study to examine whether children can be screened for mental health problems from information gathered by investigators during a maltreatment investigation is conducted. Results conclude that child welfare risk assessment and other forms of gathering information are effective in screening children for mental health problems.

Care and treatment, Methods, Usage, Medical screening, Health screening, Child welfare, Child mental health, Clinical report

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: On winning friends and influencing people: action identification and self-presentation success. Recategorization as a method for promoting intergroup cooperation: group status matters
• Abstracts: Popular performance and the construction of social reality in post-Amin Uganda. Watching films, learning language, and experiencing culture: An account of deaf culture through history and popular films
• Abstracts: Fear of eviction: The case of slum and squatter dwellers in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The overlooked ethnic dimension of Hispanic subgroup settlement in New York City
• Abstracts: A cross-national test of propositions from the neo-pluralist perspective on social security expenditures. Fostering a rational debate on social insurance
• Abstracts: Fashion in the age of advertising. Sleuths in the darkroom: Photographer-detectives and postmodern narrative. From sanitation to liberation?: The modern and postmodern marketing of menstrual products

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.