Adoption as a lifelong process : a psychiatric analysis / Barbara Steck.
Steck, Barbara, 1942-
2023
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Title
Adoption as a lifelong process : a psychiatric analysis / Barbara Steck.
Author
Steck, Barbara, 1942-
ISBN
9783031330384 (electronic bk.)
3031330382 (electronic bk.)
3031330374
9783031330377
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-33038-4
Publication Details
Cham : Springer, 2023.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (278 p.)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-33038-4 doi
Call Number
HV875
Dewey Decimal Classification
362.734019
Summary
This book addresses the psychosocial complexities of adoption from multiple perspectives, including the biological family, adopted child, and adoptive parents. It highlights the must-have sensitivity and tactfulness for recurring discussions of the adoption situation. Organized into 10 parts, the book begins with a brief outline of the history of adoption and its legal status from antiquity to modern times. Chapters in the first half of the book examine critical topics such as different parenthood situations, stress and pain processes in early childhood, and challenges of domestic, international, transcultural, transracial, foster, and sexual and gender minorities adoption. Within the second half of the book, chapters describe the birth parents' difficulties in relinquishing their infant, the motives of the adoptive parents, and the hardships of the adoptive children in self-development. The final chapters address the topic of deprivation, traumatization, and developmental trauma disorders on a psychodynamic level accompanied by clinical vignettes. Unique, perceptive, and insightful, Adoption, A Life Long Process is an essential resource for all of those involved in the adoption process, including counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, adoptive parents, and biological parents.
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Symptoms and Characteristics of Psychic Traumatization
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
Contents
About the Author
Chapter 1: Introduction: History of Adoption
Right and Law
UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
References
Chapter 2: Self Development and Parenthood
Self-Development
True and False Self
Time and Temporality in Childhood and Adolescence
Adolescence
Parenthood
Early Parent-Child Relationship
Early Relationship Disorders
Childless Couples with a Desire for Children
Introduction
Disappointed Longing
Grief
Adoption or Reproductive Medicine

Parenthood by Medically Assisted Reproduction
Reproductive Medicine and Adoption
Parenthood by Surrogacy
Parenthood by Adoption
Parenthood by Sexual and Gender Minorities
Parenthood of Foster Children
Adoption of Older Children
Adjustment Dynamics
Symptomatic Behavior
Loyalty Versus Disloyalty
Questioning the New Affective Ties
The Family System
Parental Adjustment
Marital Relationship
Suggestions for New Parents Adopting an Older Child
References
Chapter 3: Stress and Pain
Stress
Introduction
Neurobiological Responses to Stress

Psychobiological Effects of Stressful Experiences
Three Different Types of Stress Reactions in Young Children
Stress at Different Ages
Prenatal Stress
Stress in Infancy
Stress in Separation Situations
Pain
Neurobiological Aspects of Pain
Pain and Stress Processing
Pain and Attachment
References
Chapter 4: Adoption Studies
Genetic and Environmental Factors
Risk and Protective Factors
Early Versus Late Adoption
Investigations on Adopted Romanian Orphans
Attachment Disorders
Autistic Disorders

The Mental Health Long-Term Outcomes of Young Adopted Adults
Summary
Epidemiological Studies
Summary
Domestic, International, Transracial or Transcultural Adoptions
Summary
Open Adoption
Controversial Results of Clinical Studies
Disadvantages and Differences of Open Adoption
Adoption Disruption and Dissolution
Relationship Dissolution or Divorce in Adoptive Parents or Same-Sex Parent Couples
Outlook
References
Chapter 5: Adoption Triangle: Biological Parents-Child-Adoptive Parents
Biological Parents
Biological Mothers
Biological Fathers

Adoptive Parents
Motivations
Transition from the Imaginary to the Real Child
Edward Franklin Albee (1928-2016) American Playwright
The Adopted Child
Development in Adolescence
Siblings
Biological Children
Adoption of Siblings
References
Chapter 6: Filiation Breakup
Psychic Trauma
Introduction
Difference Between Extra- and Intrafamilial Trauma
Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
Concepts of Trauma
Neurobiological Aspects
Psychobiological Aspects
Cumulative Trauma
Assessment of a Traumatic Situation

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