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    Barbara Steck.
    Summary: This book addresses the psychosocial complexities of adoption from multiple perspectives, including the biological family, adopted child, and adoptive parents. It highlights the must-have sensitivity and tactfulness for recurring discussions of the adoption situation. Organized into 10 parts, the book begins with a brief outline of the history of adoption and its legal status from antiquity to modern times. Chapters in the first half of the book examine critical topics such as different parenthood situations, stress and pain processes in early childhood, and challenges of domestic, international, transcultural, transracial, foster, and sexual and gender minorities adoption. Within the second half of the book, chapters describe the birth parents' difficulties in relinquishing their infant, the motives of the adoptive parents, and the hardships of the adoptive children in self-development. The final chapters address the topic of deprivation, traumatization, and developmental trauma disorders on a psychodynamic level accompanied by clinical vignettes. Unique, perceptive, and insightful, Adoption, A Life Long Process is an essential resource for all of those involved in the adoption process, including counselors, psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, adoptive parents, and biological parents.

    Contents:
    Intro
    Preface
    Acknowledgments
    Contents
    About the Author
    Chapter 1: Introduction: History of Adoption
    Right and Law
    UN Convention on the Rights of the Child
    References
    Chapter 2: Self Development and Parenthood
    Self-Development
    True and False Self
    Time and Temporality in Childhood and Adolescence
    Adolescence
    Parenthood
    Early Parent-Child Relationship
    Early Relationship Disorders
    Childless Couples with a Desire for Children
    Introduction
    Disappointed Longing
    Grief
    Adoption or Reproductive Medicine Parenthood by Medically Assisted Reproduction
    Reproductive Medicine and Adoption
    Parenthood by Surrogacy
    Parenthood by Adoption
    Parenthood by Sexual and Gender Minorities
    Parenthood of Foster Children
    Adoption of Older Children
    Adjustment Dynamics
    Symptomatic Behavior
    Loyalty Versus Disloyalty
    Questioning the New Affective Ties
    The Family System
    Parental Adjustment
    Marital Relationship
    Suggestions for New Parents Adopting an Older Child
    References
    Chapter 3: Stress and Pain
    Stress
    Introduction
    Neurobiological Responses to Stress Psychobiological Effects of Stressful Experiences
    Three Different Types of Stress Reactions in Young Children
    Stress at Different Ages
    Prenatal Stress
    Stress in Infancy
    Stress in Separation Situations
    Pain
    Neurobiological Aspects of Pain
    Pain and Stress Processing
    Pain and Attachment
    References
    Chapter 4: Adoption Studies
    Genetic and Environmental Factors
    Risk and Protective Factors
    Early Versus Late Adoption
    Investigations on Adopted Romanian Orphans
    Attachment Disorders
    Autistic Disorders The Mental Health Long-Term Outcomes of Young Adopted Adults
    Summary
    Epidemiological Studies
    Summary
    Domestic, International, Transracial or Transcultural Adoptions
    Summary
    Open Adoption
    Controversial Results of Clinical Studies
    Disadvantages and Differences of Open Adoption
    Adoption Disruption and Dissolution
    Relationship Dissolution or Divorce in Adoptive Parents or Same-Sex Parent Couples
    Outlook
    References
    Chapter 5: Adoption Triangle: Biological Parents-Child-Adoptive Parents
    Biological Parents
    Biological Mothers
    Biological Fathers Adoptive Parents
    Motivations
    Transition from the Imaginary to the Real Child
    Edward Franklin Albee (1928-2016) American Playwright
    The Adopted Child
    Development in Adolescence
    Siblings
    Biological Children
    Adoption of Siblings
    References
    Chapter 6: Filiation Breakup
    Psychic Trauma
    Introduction
    Difference Between Extra- and Intrafamilial Trauma
    Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
    Developmental Trauma Disorder (DTD)
    Concepts of Trauma
    Neurobiological Aspects
    Psychobiological Aspects
    Cumulative Trauma
    Assessment of a Traumatic Situation
    Digital Access Springer 2023