02973nam 22004695 450 991073602980332120230731203905.03-031-33038-210.1007/978-3-031-33038-4(MiAaPQ)EBC30670594(Au-PeEL)EBL30670594(DE-He213)978-3-031-33038-4(PPN)272256935(CKB)27899947400041(EXLCZ)992789994740004120230731d2023 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAdoption as a Lifelong Process A Psychiatric Analysis /by Barbara Steck1st ed. 2023.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2023.1 online resource (278 pages)Print version: Steck, Barbara Adoption As a Lifelong Process Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2023 9783031330377 1. Introduction: History of Adoption -- 2. Self-development and Parenthood -- 3. Stress and Pain -- 4. Adoption Studies -- 5. Adoption Triangle -- 6. Filiation Breakup -- 7. Filiation Creation -- 8. Clinical Vignettes -- 9. Professional Help -- 10. Annex.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.PsychiatryPsychiatryPsychiatry.Psychiatry.616.89362.734019Steck Barbara1380383MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910736029803321Adoption As a Lifelong Process3421647UNINA