The current article provides a review of adoption research since its inception as a field of
study. Three historical trends in adoption research are identified: the first focusing on risk in …

This meta-analysis of 62 studies (N= 17,767 adopted children) examined whether the
cognitive development of adopted children differed from that of (a) children who remained in …

ContextInternational adoption involves more than 40 000 children a year moving among
more than 100 countries. Before adoption, international adoptees often experience …

The Classic Edition of Promoting Positive Parenting illuminates the widespread success of
the Video-feedback Intervention to promote Positive Parenting and Sensitive Discipline …

The number of transracial adoptions in the United States, particularly international
adoptions, is increasing annually. Counseling psychology as a profession, however, is a …

Background: Adopted children have been said to be difficult children, scarred by their past
experiences in maltreating families or neglecting orphanages, or by genetic or preand …

In a longitudinal study, internationally adopted children (N= 146) placed before 6 months of
age were followed from infancy to age 7. Results showed that girls were better adjusted than …

Six and a half years after adoption, 6-to 12-year-old children reared in Romanian
orphanages for more than 8 months in their first years of life (RO, n= 18) had higher cortisol …

OBJECTIVES: The objective of this study was to document the psychological adjustment of
adolescents who were conceived through donor insemination by lesbian mothers who …

Using the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL), the rate and type of behavior problems
associated with being reared in an institution prior to adoption were examined in 1,948, 4 …