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Ramos, Amanda M.; Shewark, Elizabeth A.; Fosco, Gregory M.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Reiss, David; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Leve, Leslie D.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M. – Developmental Psychology, 2022
Family systems research has identified two key processes (spillover and compensatory), linking interparental relationship quality to the parent-child relationship. However, previous research has focused on the parent as the sole initiator and had not often considered the role of the child in these processes. The present study adds to the…
Descriptors: Parent Child Relationship, Adoption, Interaction, Toddlers
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Howard, Amanda R. Hiles; Dandy, Kristina; Martino, Maria; Howard, John D.; Cross, David R. – Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 2019
The Attachment Behavior Checklist is a promising, but unvalidated, measure designed to assess attachment disturbances. Confirmatory and exploratory factor analyses were conducted. Results revealed a 5-factor solution best fit the data. Individual differences in the factors were examined. The Child Behavior Checklist was used to determine…
Descriptors: Attachment Behavior, Check Lists, Psychometrics, Child Behavior
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Cioffi, Camille C.; Griffin, Amanda M.; Natsuaki, Misaki N.; Shaw, Daniel S.; Reiss, David; Ganiban, Jody M.; Neiderhiser, Jenae M.; Leve, Leslie D. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
Understanding the role of negative emotionality in the development of executive functioning (EF) and language skills can help identify developmental windows that may provide promising opportunities for intervention. In addition, because EF and language skills are, in part, genetically influenced, intergenerational transmission patterns are…
Descriptors: Adoption, Child Development, Executive Function, Language Skills
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Turkington, Selina; Taylor, Brian J. – Child Care in Practice, 2009
The trend in adoption since the 1960s has been away from secrecy and towards greater openness; contact through an intermediary, and direct contact by letter, is now widely accepted. More controversial is the challenge of face-to-face contact with birth parents, and social workers involved in the decision-making process find themselves having to…
Descriptors: Parents, Foreign Countries, Adoption, Social Work
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Jones, Martha L. – Child Welfare, 1979
For the older child moving into adoptive placement, a careful and knowledgeable preparation of both child and adoptive family is essential for success. (Author/SE)
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Adoption, Children, Depression (Psychology)
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Kenrick, Jenny – Journal of Child Psychotherapy, 2005
This paper addresses, from a Kleinian perspective, some of the dilemmas and technical issues faced by the child psychotherapist in work with looked-after and adopted children. A selective review of psychoanalytic literature focusing on the use of transference and countertransference is given. Clinical material provides some examples of different…
Descriptors: Children, Adoption, Parent Child Relationship, Counseling Techniques
Robinson, Grace – 1998
Based on interviews with 30 families who adopted children over the age of 2, this book provides prospective and current adoptive parents with insight into the seemingly irrational behavior of the older adopted child, providing coping models and questioning the policies governing the services provided to such children and their families. The first…
Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Adoptive Parents, Anger