This book is an edited collection of 13 papers based on invited keynote presentations or paper symposia presentations given at the Second International Conference on Adoption Research (ICAR2) 2006. The goal of the conference was to bring together the community of adoption researchers to share research findingsand to encourage interaction and debate about the future research agenda. Thebook has the additional goal of disseminating the messages from the keynote presentations in a manner that is relevant and accessible to a wider audience, especially to practitioners working in adoption. INDICE: Contributors. Foreword. Preface. Acknowledgements. PART 1: ADOPTION IN CONTEXT. Chapter 1: Nature, Nurture and Narratives (David Howe). Chapter 2: How Tight Was the Seal? A Reappraisal of Adoption Records in the United States, England and New Zealand, 1851-1955 (E. Wayne Carp). Chapter 3: From Bucharest to Beijing: Changes in Countries Sending Children for International Adoption 1990 to 2006 (Peter Selman). Chapter 4: The Ecology of Adoption (Jesús Palacios). PART 2: RESEARCH PERSPECTIVES. Chapter 5: Children from Care CAN Be Adopted (Ruth G. McRoy, Courtney J. Lynch, Amy Chanmugam, Elissa Madden and Susan Ayers-Lopez). Chapter 6: Understanding Links Between Birth Parents and the Child They Have Placed for Adoption: Clues for Assisting Adopting Families and for Reducing Genetic Risk (David Reiss, Leslie D. Leve and Amy L. Whitesel). Chapter 7: Effects of Profound Early Institutional Deprivation: An Overview of Findings from a UK Longitudinal Study of Romanian Adoptees (Michael Rutter, Celia Beckett, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Jana Kreppner, Mitul Mehta, Suzanne Stevens and Edmund Sonuga-Barke). Chapter 8: International Adoption Comes of Age: Development of International Adoptees from a Longitudinal and Meta-Analytical Perspective (Femmie Juffer and Marinus H. van Ijzendoorn). Chapter 9: Attachment Representations and Adoption Outcome: On the Use of Narrative Assessments to Track the Adaptation of Previously Maltreated Children in Their New Families (Miriam Steele, Jill Hodges, Jeanne Kaniuk, Howard Steele, Kay Asquith andSaul Hillman). Chapter 10: Adopted Adolescents: Who and What Are They CuriousAbout (Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Kristin Dillon)? Chapter 11: Emerging Voices - Reflections on Adoption from the Birth Mothers Perspective (Ruth Kelly). Chapter 12: The Corresponding Experiences of Adoptive Parents and Birth Relatives in Open Adoptions (Elsbeth Neil). Chapter 13: Emotional Distance Regulationover the Life Course in Adoptive Kinship Networks (Harold D. Grotevant). Chapter 14: Connecting Research to Practice (Gretchen Miller Wrobel and Elsbeth Neil). Index.
- ISBN: 978-0-470-99818-2
- Editorial: John Wiley & Sons
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 360
- Fecha Publicación: 30/01/2009
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
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