The emotional tasks of moving from fostering to adoption: Transitions, attachment, separation and loss

Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 337-349

  Lanyado, Monica ^a  

^a Association of British Insurers   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fostering and adoption; Life transitions; Multiple traumatic loss; Psychodynamics of the professional network; Simultaneous attachment and loss; Transitional objects and phenomena

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ANGER; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD GROWTH; CHILD HEALTH CARE; COPING BEHAVIOR; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FAMILY; FOSTER CARE; HUMAN; INSTITUTIONAL CARE; LIFE EVENT; MOURNING; PSYCHOANALYSIS; PSYCHODYNAMICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; PSYCHOTHERAPY; REVIEW; SEPARATION ANXIETY; VIOLENCE;

EID: 0043268157     PISSN: 13591045     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1359104503008003005     Document Type: Review

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