Adoption and Disruption: Rates, Risks, and Responses

by Richard P. Barth (Editor), Marianne Berry (Editor)

Overview

First Published in 2017. In this book the authors move easily and often between the worlds of policy, practice, and research in child and family welfare. Their own research delineates— better than any other to date— the particular factors associated with successful and unsuccessful older, special-needs adoptions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780202360546
Publisher:	Transaction Publishers
Publication date:	03/07/2023
Series:	Modern Applications of Social Work Series
Pages:	262
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

Richard P. Barth, a fost-adopt father, is Associate Professor, Associate Director of the Family Welfare Research Group, and Chairman of the School Social Work Program, in the School of Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley. Marianne Berry is a doctoral candidate in Social Welfare at the University of California, Berkeley.

Table of Contents

Part I. Older Child Adoption Now 1 Overview of Older Child Adoption and Disruption 3 2 The Value of Adoption and Disruption 23 3 A Social and Cognitive Model of Adjustment to Adoption 43 Part II. The Study 4 Disruption Research: Past and Present 69 5 Predicting Disruptions 39 6 Preplacement Assessment and Decision Making 103 7 Birth and Adoptive Parents 123 8 The Children: History, Behavior, and Attachment 129 9 Social Worker Characteristics and Services 145 10 Discriminating Disruptions from Intact Placements 155 Part III. Implications of the Study 11 The Path to Disruption 167 12 Practice Implications 185 13 Policy and Program Implications

Editorial Reviews

In this book, focus is on the problem of disruption in adoption placements of older children (3 years and above)… The goal of the study is to determine what adoption practices would help to reduce the tendency toward disruption… It is of particular value to child welfare workers and social workers. For undergraduate and graduate level academic libraries with professional programs.” —M. O. McMahon, Choice

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