Foster and adoptive parents often face challenges while taking care of children who, due to
their adverse early life experiences, are at risk of developing insecure attachment …

Adopted children and adolescents are at an increased risk of experiencing emotional,
behavioural and relational difficulties compared to their non-adopted peers. This systematic …

Parenting interventions represent a means for experimentally inquiring socio‐emotional
change of post‐institutionalized children after adoption. We used this approach in a three …

Objective The objective of this study was to increase understanding of factors that influence
adoptive mothers' psychological and emotional well‐being. The aims were to compare …

Effective psychological parenting interventions delivered to adoptive parents may prevent
serious adjustment difficulties and promote a healthy functioning; however, less is known …

Adopted children are often at a risk of experiencing several neurobiological and
psychosocial difficulties. Adoptive parents must support these difficulties whilst managing …

Adoptive parents experience a great number of challenges throughout the adoption process.
Hence, there is a need for thorough preparation of prospective adoptive parents prior to …

As attachment-based interventions can improve caregiver-infant relationships and their
subsequent psychological outcomes, the identification of relevant and effective interventions …

Little is known about adoptive parents' experiences of and satisfaction with statutory child
and adolescent mental services (CAMHS) in the UK, nor of parental concerns about their …

There is a vast amount of literature on the topic of adoption, yet it is difficult to find a central
source of the most contemporary scholarship from a variety of disciplines. The primary …