This study, done over a four-year period, focuses on children who are older than infants when placed for adoption, children who are members of a sibling group, and children with physical, emotional, or behavioral difficulties. There are an estimated 35,000 such children each year who need assistance in placement. The book explores issues of separation from siblings, adoption experiences of children who had been physically or sexually abused, and social support. The purpose of this book is to provide empirically grounded knowledge and information that will help social workers practice more effectively with special needs placements.
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“What kinds of families adopt other people's children? What are their experiences in parenting children who may have been traumatized by earlier abuse and neglect? How well do these adoptions work out? This book discusses the design and results of a four-year longitudinal study of 199 such families... Overall, Groze found the families to be functioning well and satisfied with the adoption...Groze recommends ways to improve outcomes for families who adopt children with special needs by enhancing the community and the service system, as well as increasing the parents' adaptive skills and the children's positive attachments to their families...Highly recommended for policy makers, scholars, and practitioners.”–Choice
“One of the strengths of the book is the quantitative comparisons Groze presents between the children in his sample and two other groups, children from clinical and nonclinical samples.”–American Journal of Sociology
“One of the strengths of the book is the quantitative comparisons Groze presents between the children in his sample and two other groups, children from clinical and nonclinical samples.”–
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VICTOR GROZE is Associate Dean of Academic Affairs and Associate Professor of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University.
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successful adoptive families, preadoptive history, equation predicting changes, nonclinical norms, placement genogram, adoptive family system, sibling placements, adoption outcomes, social network map, many adoptive families, other adoptive families, adoptive family life, physical abuse history, medically fragile children, adoption sample, family adaptability, adoptive placement, adoption disruption, sibling status, special needs adoption, adoption impact, other adoptive parents, attachment difficulties, siblings separated, sexual abuse history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Successful Adoptive Families, Time Effect, Siblings Placed With Some Sibs, Siblings Placed With All Sibs Sibling, United States, Integration of Findings, Child Behavior Checklist, The Future of Adoption, Age of Child, Qualitative Findings, Race of Child White New!
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successful adoptive families, preadoptive history, equation predicting changes, nonclinical norms, placement genogram, adoptive family system, sibling placements, adoption outcomes, social network map, many adoptive families, other adoptive families, adoptive family life, physical abuse history, medically fragile children, adoption sample, family adaptability, adoptive placement, adoption disruption, sibling status, special needs adoption, adoption impact, other adoptive parents, attachment difficulties, siblings separated, sexual abuse history Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Successful Adoptive Families, Time Effect, Siblings Placed With Some Sibs, Siblings Placed With All Sibs Sibling, United States, Integration of Findings, Child Behavior Checklist, The Future of Adoption, Age of Child, Qualitative Findings, Race of Child White New!
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- Children Exposed to Violence by Margaret M. Feerick in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Changing Family Life Cycle: Framework for Family Therapy by Elizabeth A. Carter in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Mental Retardation by Journal in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Social Support Networks: Informal Helping in the Human Services by James Garbarino in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- CHILD WELFARE (Fields of practice series) by Zuckerman on page 132, and Back Matter
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- Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism by Helena Ragone on page 307
- The Social Psychology of Communication Impairments by Shelagh Brumfitt in Back Matter
- Theraplay: Helping Parents and Children Build Better Relationships Through Attachment-Based Play by Ann M. Jernberg in Back Matter
- Ideologies and Technologies of Motherhood: Race, Class, Sexuality, Nationalism by Helena Ragone in Back Matter
- Cultures of Transnational Adoption by Kay Johnson on page 210
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