Patterns of Adoption Nature, Nurture and

With recent changes in the variety of children needing adoption, issues about adoption have become more complex. As older and more disturbed children are being placed for adoption, the demands these children make on post-adoption workers and parents are considerable. This text takes a broad sweep of the major research and theoretical perspectives on adoption by reviewing the work of several disciplines within psychology, sociology and social work. The book gives readers a broad understanding on the development of children before, during and after they are adopted.

David Howe is Head of School of Social Work at the University of East Anglia, Norwich.

Foreword

ix

(2)

Professor Olive Stevenson

Preface

xi

(2)

Acknowledgement

xiii

1 Nature and Nurture

1

(8)

Nature, nurture and their interplay

2

(3)

Nature, nurture and adopted children: the structure of the book

5

(4)

2 Outcome Studies of Children Adopted as Babies

9

(17)

Heredity and environment

9

(2)

Evaluating baby adoptions

11

(1)

Social and economic status of adoptive families

12

(1)

Outcome studies of children adopted as babies

13

(11)

Social, emotional and clinical outcomes and their possible causes

24

(2)

3 Children Adopted as Babies: Genetic Influences on Development

26

(25)

Behavioural genetics

27

(3)

Heredity and adopted children's development

30

(18)

Adoption: interactions between individuals' inherited predispositions and the social environment of their adoptive family

48

(2)

Adoption: risk and protection factors

50

(1)

4 Children Adopted as Babies: Environmental Influences on Development

51

(20)

Environmental influences on baby-adopted children's development

52

(16)

Overview: the influence of the post-placement environment on adopted children's psychosocial development

68

(3)

5 Outcome Studies of Older Children Placed for Adoption

71

(19)

Early trauma and developmental recovery

72

(1)

Outcome studies of older-placed adopted children

73

(13)

Overview of outcome studies of late-placed children

86

(4)

6 Older Children Placed for Adoption: Pre-placement Environmental Influences on Development

90

(12)

Environmental influences on late-placed children

90

(2)

Pre-placement experiences and older-placed children's development

92

(8)

Conclusion

100

(2)

7 Older Children Placed for Adoption: Post-placement Environmental Influences on Development

102

(16)

Post-placement environmental influences on older-placed adopted children's development

102

(13)

The quality of post-placement environments and outcomes: parent-child interactions

115

(1)

Conclusion

116

(2)

8 Heredity, Environment and Adoption Outcomes

118

(16)

Factors associated with outcomes for baby-adopted children

119

(3)

Factors associated with outcomes for late-placed children

122

(4)

Risk and resilience, vulnerability and protection

126

(8)

9 Attachment, Relationship-based Theories and Adoption Pathways

134

(10)

The development of social understanding and psychosocial competence in children

136

(2)

Internal working models

138

(2)

Classification of attachment styles

140

(4)

10 Secure Patterns

144

(7)

Secure attachments

144

(7)

11 Anxious Patterns

151

(13)

The quality of pre-placement care

151

(4)

Patterns of behaviour, personality and relationship style

155

(9)

12 Angry Patterns

164

(15)

Heightened attachment behaviour

164

(2)

Ambivalent attachment relationships

166

(2)

Patterns of behaviour, personality and relationship style

168

(11)

13 Avoidant Patterns

179

(11)

Insecure, avoidant attachment relationships

180

(1)

Patterns of behaviour, personality and relationship style

181

(9)

14 Non-attached Patterns

190

(7)

Disorders of non-attachment

191

(1)

Patterns of behaviour, personality and relationship style

192

(5)

15 Patterns of Practice

197

(16)

Adoptive parents

200

(3)

Parent-child relationships

203

(6)

Adopted children

209

(2)

The formation and re-formation of the self in social relationships

211

(2)

References

213

(10)

Index

223

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