Issues underlying behavior problems in at-risk adopted children

Children and Youth Services Review

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 2000, Pages 539-562

  Smith, Susan Livingston ^a   Howard, Jeanne A ^a   Monroe, Alan D ^a  

^a ILLINOIS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034216204     PISSN: 01907409     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0190-7409(00)00102-x     Document Type: Review

References (61)

1. Ainsworth, M.D.S. (1969). Object relations, dependency and attachment: A theoretical review of the infant-mother relationship. Child Development, 40, 969-1025.
2. Ainsworth, M.D.S. (1985). Attachment across the lifespan. Bulletin of the New York Academy of Medicine, 61, 792-812.
3. Ainsworth, M. (1989). Attachment beyond infancy. American Psychologist, 709-716.
4. American Psychiatric Association. (1994). Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (4th Ed.). Washington, DC: Author.
5. Barth, R. P., & Berry, M. (1988). Adoption & Disruption: Rates, Risks, and Responses. Hawthorne, NY: Aldine de Gruyter.
6. Benson, P. S., Sharma, A. R., Roehlkepartain, E. C. (1994). Growing Up Adopted: A Portrait of Adolescents and Their Families. Minneapolis, MN: The Search Institute.
7. Berry, M. (1992). Contributors to adjustment problems of adoptees: A review of the longitudinal research. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 96, 525-540.
8. Bowlby, J. (1960). Grief and mourning in infancy and early childhood. Psychoanalytic Study of the Child, 15, 9-52.
9. Bowlby, J. (1973). Attachment and Loss, Vol. 2: Separation-anxiety and Anger. New York: Basic Books.
10. Bowlby, J. (1980). Attachment and Loss, Vol. 3: Loss - Sadness and Depression. New York: Basic Books.
11. Briere, J. (1992). Child Abuse Trauma: Theory and Treatment of the Lasting Effects. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
12. Brodzinsky, D., Singer, L., & Braff, A. (1984). Children's understanding of adoption. Child Development, 55, 869-878.
13. Brodzinsky, D.M., Radice, C., Huffman, L., & Merkler, K. (1987). Prevalence of clinically significant symptomatology in a nonclinical sample of adopted and nonadopted children. Journal of Clinical Child Psychology, 16 (4), 350-356.
14. Brodzinsky, D.M., Schechter, M.D., & Henig, R.M. (1992). Being Adopted: The Lifelong Search for Self. New York: Doubleday.
15. Cicchetti, D. (1989). How research on child maltreatment has informed the study of child development: Perspectives from developmental psychopathology. In D. Cicchetti & V. Carlson (Eds.), Child Maltreatment: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Child Abuse and Neglect (pp. 377-431). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
16. Cline, F. (1992). Hope for High Risk and Rage Filled Children. Evergreen, CO: Evergreen Consultants in Human Behavior.
17. Delaney, R. (1991). Fostering Changes: Treating Attachment Disordered Foster Children. Fort Collins, CO: Walter J. Corbett Publishing.
18. Delaney, R.F., & Kunstal, F.R. (1993). Troubled Transplants: Unconventional Strategies for Helping Disturbed Foster and Adopted Children. University of Southern Maine: National Child Welfare Resource Center for Management and Administration, Edmund S. Muskie Institute of Public Affairs.
19. Dickson, L.R., Heffron, W.M., & Parker, C. (1990). Children from disrupted and adoptive homes on an inpatient unit. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 60, 594-602.
20. Egeland, B.D., Sroufe, L.A., & Erickson, M. (1983). The developmental consequences of different patterns of maltreatment. Child Abuse and Neglect, 7 (4), 459-469.
21. Fahlberg, V. (1991). A Child's Journey through Placement. Indianapolis: Perspectives Press.
22. Famularo, R., Fenton, T., Kinscherff, R., Ayoub, C., & Barnum, R. (1994). Maternal and child posttraumatic stress disorder in cases of child maltreatment. Child Abuse and Neglect, 18 (1), 27-36.
23. Famularo, R.; Kinscherff, R.; & Fenton, T. (1990). Symptom differences in acute and chronic presentation of childhood post-traumatic stress disorder. Child Abuse and Neglect, 14 (3), 439-444.
24. Finkelhor, D., & Browne, A. (1986). Initial and long term effects: A conceptual framework. In D. Finkelhor (Ed.), A Sourcebook on Child Sexual Abuse. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
25. Fullerton, C.S., Goodrich, W., & Berman, L.B. (1986). Adoption predicts psychiatric treatment resistances in hospitalized adolescents. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 25 (4), 542-551.
26. Grotevant, H.D., McRoy, R.G., Jenkins, V.Y. (1988). Emotionally disturbed, adopted adolescents: Early patterns of family adaptation. Family Process, 27, 439-457.
27. Haimes, E. (1987). "Now I know who I really am." identity change and redefinitions of the self in adoption. In T. Honess & K. Yardley (Eds.), Self and Identity. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
28. Harrington, R. (1993). Depressive Disorder in Childhood and Adolescence. Chichester, England: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
29. James, B. (1989). Treating Traumatized Children: New Insights and Creative Interventions. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books.
30. Jewett, C.L. (1982). Helping Children Cope with Separation and Loss. Harvard, MA: Harvard Common Press.
31. Katz, M. (1986, August). Understanding and helping adopted and foster children with emotional problems. Presentation at Conference of North American Council on Adoptable Children, Toronto.
32. Kaufman, J. (1991). Depressive disorders in maltreated children. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 30 (2), 257-265.
33. Keck, G.C., & Kupecky, R.M. (1995). Adopting the Hurt Child: Hope for Families with Special-needs Kids. Colorado Springs, CO: Pinon Press.
34. Keller, M.B., Lavori, P.W., Beardslee, W.R., Wunder, J., & Ryan, N. (1991). Depression in children and adolescents; New data on "undertreatment" and a literature review on the efficacy of available treatments. Journal of Affective Disorders, 21, 163-171.
35. Kinzie, J., Sack, W., Angell, R., Manson, S., & Rath, B. (1986). The psychiatric effects of massive trauma on cambodian children: I. The children. Journal of the American Academy of Child Psychiatry, 25 (3), 370-376.
36. Kiser, L., Ackerman, B.J., Brown, E., Edwards, N.B., McColgan, E.G., Pugh, R.L., & Pruitt, D.B. (1988). Post-traumatic stress disorder in young children: A reaction to purported sexual abuse. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27 (5), 645-649.
37. Kiser, L., Heston, J., Millsap, P., & Pruitt, D. (1991). Physical & sexual abuse in childhood: Relationship with post-truaumatic stress disorder. Journal of American Acadamey Child Adolescent Psychiatry, 30 (5), 776-782.
38. Kubler-Ross, E. (1969). On Death and Dying. New York: Macmillan.
39. Lifton, B.J. (1990). The formation of the adopted self. Psychotherapy in Private Practice, 8 (3), 85-91.
40. McCann, I., Sakheim, D., & Abrahamson, D.(1988). Trauma and victimization: A model of psychological adaptation. The Counseling Psychologist. 16 (4), 531-593.
41. McLeer, S., Deblinger, E., Atkins, M., Foa, E.B., & Ralphie, D. (1988). Post-traumatic stress disorder in sexually abused children. J. Am. Acad. Child. Adolesc. Psychiatry., 27 (5), 650-654.
42. Nelson, K. A. (1985). On the Frontier of Adoption: A Study of Special Needs Adoptive Families. NY: Child Welfare League of America.
43. Petersen, A.C., Compas, B.E., Brooks-Gunn, J., Stemmler, M., Ey, S., & Grant, K. (1993). Depression in adolescence. American Psychologist, 48 (2), 155-168.
44. Reite, M., & Fields, T. (1985). The Psychobiology of Attachment and Separation. Orlando, FL: Academic Press.
45. Rogeness, G.A., Hoppe, S.K. Macedo, C.A., Fischer, C., & Harris, W.R. (1988). Psychopathology in hospitalized, adopted children. Journal of American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27, 628-631.
46. Rosenberg, E., & Horner, T. (1991). Birthparent romances and identity formation in adopted children. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 61 (1), 70-77.
47. Rosenthal, J. A., & Groze, V. K. (1991). Behavioral problems of special needs adopted children. Children and Youth Services Review, 13, 343-361.
48. Rosenthal, J. A. & Groze, V.K.. (1994). A longitudinal study of special-needs adoptive families. Child Welfare, 73 (6), 689-706.
49. Rutter, M. (1989). Intergenerational continuities and discontinuities in serious parenting difficulties. In D. Cicchetti & V. Carlson (Eds.), Child Maltreatment: Theory and Research on the Causes and Consequences of Abuse and Neglect (pp. 317-348). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
50. Sants, H.J. (1964). Genealogical bewilderment in children with substitute parents. British Journal of Medical Psychology, 37, 133-141.
51. Schechter, M.D., & Bertocci, D. (1990). The meaning of the search. In D.M. Brodzinsky & M.D. Schechter (Eds.), The Psychology of Adoption (pp. 62-90). New York: Oxford University Press.
52. Scurfield, R.M. (1985). Post-trauma assessment and treatment: Overview and formulations. In C.R. Figley (Ed.) Trauma and Its Wake: The Study and Treatment of Post-traumatic Stress Disorder (pp. 219-256). New York: Brunner/Mazel.
53. Senior, N., & Himadi, E. (1985). Emotionally disturbed, adopted, inpatient adolescents. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 15 (3), 189-197.
54. Smith, S.L., & Howard, J.A. (1991). A comparative study of successful and disrupted adoptions. Social Service Review, 65 (2), 248-265.
55. Smith, S.L., & Howard, J.A. (1994). The impact of previous sexual abuse on children's adjustment in adoptive placement. Social Work, 39 (5), 491-501.
56. Sorosky, A., Baran, A., & Pannor, R. (1975). Identity conflicts in adoptees. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 45 (1), 18-27.
57. Stein, L.M., & Hoopes, J.L. (1985). Identity Formation in the Adopted Adolescent. New York: Child Welfare League of America.
58. Terr, L. (1991). Childhood traumas: An outline & overview. American Journal of Psychiatry, 148 (1), 10-20.
59. van Gulden, H., & Bartels-Rabb, L.M. (1994). Real Parents, Real Children: Parenting the Adopted Child. New York: Crossroad.
60. Ver Ellen, P., & van Kammen, D. (1990). The biological findings in post-traumatic stress disorder: A review. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 20, 1789-1821.
61. Weiss, R. (1988). Loss and recovery. Journal of Social Issues, 44 (3), 37-52.