Adoption - Psychology
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Monday, November 23, 2009

High activity of monoamine oxidase A is associated with externalizing behaviour in maltreated and nonmaltreated adoptees.

30 Jul 2009 Individual differences in a functional polymorphism of the promoter of the Monoamine oxidase A (MAO-A) gene might partly explain the increased vulnerability of maltreated children for externalizing behaviour. A sample of 239 internationally adopted ... Read more...

Understanding and promoting attachment.

30 Jul 2009 Interest in early relationships has led to increased use of terms such as attachment disorder, attachment problems, and attachment therapy when describing behavioral/emotional regulation in young children. Unfortunately, such terms are vague and ... Read more...

Facilitating attachment after international adoption.

29 Jun 2009 Americans have increasingly turned to international adoption (IA) as an alternative way to build a family. Unfortunately, IA families are often being developed under conditions of loss, and sometimes these families struggle to form healthy ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Adoption - Psychology'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• High activity of monoamine oxidase A is associated with externalizing behaviour in maltreated and nonmaltreated adoptees. 30 Jul 2009
• Understanding and promoting attachment. 30 Jul 2009
• Facilitating attachment after international adoption. 29 Jun 2009
• The Down syndrome advantage: fact or fiction? 29 Jun 2009
• Rethinking environmental contributions to child and adolescent psychopathology: a meta-analysis of shared environmental influences. 29 Jun 2009
• Complex trauma, impact on development and possible solutions on an adolescent intensive care unit. 29 Jun 2009
• Contact and truth: the unfolding predicament in adoption and fostering. 29 Jun 2009
• Postadoption depression: what nurses should know. Adoptive parents need support, too. 29 Jun 2009
• Alcohol outcome expectancies as socially shared and socialized beliefs. 30 May 2009
• Psychiatric status among stepchildren and domestic and international adoptees in Denmark. A comparative nationwide register-based study. 16 May 2009
• Embryo donation in New Zealand: a pilot study. 7 May 2009
• Shared-environmental contributions to high cognitive ability. 16 Apr 2009
• An exploratory study of the association between reactive attachment disorder and attachment narratives in early school-age children. 30 Mar 2009
• School-age adopted Chinese girls' behavioral adjustment, academic performance, and social skills: longitudinal results. 30 Mar 2009
• Impact of early childhood adversities on adult psychiatric disorders: a study of international adoptees. Feb 2009
• Early childhood adversities and trajectories of psychiatric problems in adoptees: evidence for long lasting effects. 30 Jan 2009
• Nursing the disenfranchised: women who have relinquished an infant for adoption. 30 Jan 2009
• A contemporary child-case discussion. 30 Jan 2009
• Boys only! No mothers allowed. 30 Jan 2009
• Triadic reality, same sex parents and child analysis: a response to Ann Smolen's 'Boys only! No mothers allowed'. 30 Jan 2009

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Technical information about 'Adoption'

Definition: Voluntary acceptance of a child of other parents to be as one's own child, usually with legal confirmation.

Descriptor UI: D000300

Alternative terms: Adoption; Adoptions;

Allowable Qualifiers: ethnology; legislation & jurisprudence; psychology;

Tree Number: I01.880.225.140;