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Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families

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This is an excellent resource for researching and critiquing the policy and process in adoption.

This book disappointed me. The authors did not make enough reference to recent scientific literature. To complete with the recent meta-analytic reviews like:

van Ijzendoorn, M. H., & Juffer, F. (2006). The Emanuel Miller Memorial Lecture 2006: Adoption as intervention. Meta-analytic evidence for massive catch-up and plasticity in physical, socio-emotional, and cognitive development. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 47(12), 1228-1245.

An integration of psychoanalytic and empirical data would have been great.

-A Psychology Psy.D.-Ph.D. student.

This is a great resource on adoption issues, which is why I included it in my Listmania collection of books on the topic. As a child psychologist who works primarily with foster and adopted children and their families, I found this book very educational. Some of the content can be a bit clinical, and so parents might find themselves overwhelmed with the content. But practitioners working in this field must have a copy. I like how the authors address cutting-edge issues in adoption, addressing the complexity of children, families, and the child welfare system.

Christopher J. Alexander, Ph.D. (Author, 'Diagnosis, Assessment, and Treatment of Foster and Adopted Children; A Guide for Parents and Practitioners,' 2009).