A5001902621- Child Welfare and Adoption
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Child Abuse and Trauma
- Cinema History and Criticism
- Social Sciences and Policies
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Spanish Culture and Identity
- Early Childhood Education and Development
- Latin American Literature Studies
- Media, Journalism, and Communication History
- Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving
- Comparative Literary Analysis and Criticism
- Aging, Health, and Disability
- Spanish Literature and Culture Studies
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Spanish History and Politics
- Historical and socio-economic studies of Spain and related regions
- Parental Involvement in Education
- Cultural and Mythological Studies
- Philosophical and Cultural Analysis
- Literary and Cultural Studies
- Educational Practices and Policies
- Health and Lifestyle Studies
- Educational Outcomes and Influences
- Educational theories and practices
Universidad de Sevilla
2016-2025
Universitat de València
2023
Instituto de Física Corpuscular
2023
Universidad Nacional de Asunción
2022
University of Massachusetts Amherst
2017
Pro Persona
2017
Universidad de Cádiz
2016
Universidad de Huelva
2016
Departamento de Educación
2016
Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness
2016
The current article provides a review of adoption research since its inception as field study. Three historical trends in are identified: the first focusing on risk and identifying adoptee—nonadoptee differences adjustment; second examining capacity adopted children to recover from early adversity; third biological, psychosocial, contextual factors processes underlying variability children’s adjustment. Suggestions for future areas empirical investigation offered, with an emphasis need...
Children exposed to institutional care often suffer from "structural neglect" which may include minimum physical resources, unfavorable and unstable staffing patterns, social-emotionally inadequate caregiver-child interactions. This chapter is devoted the analysis of ill effects early experiences on resident children's development. Delays in important areas physical, hormonal, cognitive, emotional development are discussed. The evidence for against existence a distinctive set co-occurring...
Contemporary Adoption in the United States: Implications for Next Wave of Theory, Research and Practice by D. Brooks, C. Simmel, L. Wind R. P. Barth Changing Attitudes Adoptive Parents Northern European Countries Hoksbergen J. T. Laak Prenatal Postnatal Risks to Neurobiological Development Internationally Adopted Children M. Gunnar A. Kertes Adverse Preadoption Experiences Psychological Outcomes Rutter Change Continuity Mental Representations Attachment After Hodges, Steele, Kaniuk, S....
Existing over many centuries, adoption has been challenged in recent years by evidence about practices that do not respond to the principles, ethics and laws under which it should be enacted.Written from a multidisciplinary international perspective, this article outlines place of child protection system, as well its core elements permanence stability.Recent demographic changes throughout world are first examined.The negative consequences children's exposure early adversities post-adoption...
Purpose: A rich and heterogeneous body of knowledge about adoption breakdown has accumulated in recent years. The goal this article is to review the existing research literature on topic. Method: comprehensive journal articles, book chapters, technical reports addressing issue was conducted. Results: Terminological methodological difficulties are discussed before main findings incidence presented. detailed examination child, parent, support service characteristics associated with experience...
Attachment theory and research are drawn upon in many applied settings, including family courts, but misunderstandings widespread sometimes result misapplications. The aim of this consensus statement is, therefore, to enhance understanding, counter misinformation, steer family-court utilisation attachment a supportive, evidence-based direction, especially with regard child protection custody decision-making. article is divided into two parts. In the first, we address problems related use...
This chapter first presents a review of research on the development adopted children, focusing meta‐analytic evidence and highlighting comparisons between children with without histories early adversity. Some methodological issues arising from this literature are considered as well. Second, 7 longitudinal studies children's described, convergence findings across cross‐sectionally based is discussed. Third, role adoptive family in supporting explored.
This study explores parental ethnotheories of children's temperament through mothers' responses to McDevitt and Carey's Behavioral Style Questionnaire (1978) for 299 children aged 3 8 years interviews with their parents, in Australia, Italy, t
Emotion understanding (EU) is a socio-cognitive skill that enables us to understand the expression of emotions in ourselves and others. Exposure early adversity hinders its development, since quality social interactions are essential for growth. Language critical component EU, therefore, it may be mediator between exposure EU. In this study, we analyzed EU development mediating role language relation internationally adopted children, maltreated children residential care, community comparison...
Background Following initial adversity, internationally adopted children arrive with significant growth and developmental delays. Post-placement recovery has been widely documented, but little known about its extent timing several years after placement in diverse pre-adoptive experiences. Methods A total of 289 from six countries into Spanish families were studied. Growth psychological development considered on arrival an average over 3 years. Results delays affected a substantial percentage...
Using the Story Stem Assessment Profile, attachment representations were analyzed in a group of 40 internationally adopted children studied after an average months since their adoption. These compared to 58 living with birth families and no experience maltreatment, 50 who Spanish institutions. All between four eight years age at time study. Findings indicated that adoptees' more negative than those control group, but similar institutionalized children. The associations different indicators...
Abstract Research on adoption is contributing to our understanding of developmental plasticity. As early adversity usually involved in adoption, researchers can study both the negative consequences such and catch‐up processes that follow once children are integrated into a protective, loving, stimulating family context. In this article, we analyze postadoption recovery three domains: growth, neuropsychological development, attachment. Given existence differential plasticity within each these...
The ideas of parents concerning the development, upbringing, and education their children have become a subject that has produced lot work in developmental research recent years. However, there still remain grey areas contradictions which need to be further clarified. While trying steer clear fragmentary nature done this area, paper analyses wide-ranging set differing content. An attempt is then made find elements help characterise overall pattern these ideas. study also tries clarify amount...
The power of a mixed-methods approach combining anthropological and psychological theories methods is demonstrated through the experiences International Study Parents, Children, Schools, collaborative project involving teams researchers from seven Western countries. developmental niche framework Super Harkness proved useful for integrating multiple to understand context children’s early development at home school. Several parts study are presented as illustrations: application common list...
Stress associated with adoptive parenthood was studied in a sample of parents 104 children below the age 12 adopted several years before. Most were when they babies, all through national adoption programs and very few matched profile initial adversity or special needs. High correlations found between mothers' fathers' stress scores, which some aspects similar to, others lower than, that normative data. The hierarchical regression analysis on experienced by mothers showed both features...