TY - JOUR
T1 - Clinical challenges of adoption
T2 - Views from Montreal and Tel Aviv
AU - St-André, Martin
AU - Keren, Miri
PY - 2011/11
Y1 - 2011/11
N2 - Adoption is accompanied by well-known risk factors that contribute to unique clinical challenges for children, parents, and clinicians. Adoption also serves to illustrate issues that remain relatively "silent" in the typical transition to parenthood. In this article, the authors review the normal developmental challenges that parents face during adoption, the adoption-related risk factors that may impinge on the child's development and attachment process, and the impact of adoption on the child's development of identity and filiations. We will review and illustrate clinical conditions often associated with adoption. In many countries, adoptive parents are reluctant to consult mental health clinicians during the first year of the adoption. The cases presented here illustrates the need to implement routine clinical programs for early detection and intervention of adoptive parent-infant dyads and triads at risk.
AB - Adoption is accompanied by well-known risk factors that contribute to unique clinical challenges for children, parents, and clinicians. Adoption also serves to illustrate issues that remain relatively "silent" in the typical transition to parenthood. In this article, the authors review the normal developmental challenges that parents face during adoption, the adoption-related risk factors that may impinge on the child's development and attachment process, and the impact of adoption on the child's development of identity and filiations. We will review and illustrate clinical conditions often associated with adoption. In many countries, adoptive parents are reluctant to consult mental health clinicians during the first year of the adoption. The cases presented here illustrates the need to implement routine clinical programs for early detection and intervention of adoptive parent-infant dyads and triads at risk.
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U2 - 10.1002/imhj.20329
DO - 10.1002/imhj.20329
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AN - SCOPUS:81355154578
SN - 0163-9641
VL - 32
SP - 694
EP - 706
JO - Infant Mental Health Journal
JF - Infant Mental Health Journal
IS - 6
ER -