Tangle Adoptive Families: Experiences and Psychological Interventions

Authors: Barroso R and Dias D*

DOI: 10.23880/pprij-16000367

Volume 8, Issue 4

Abstract

Through adoption children without permanent parents can grow up in a family and experience family relationships. Adoption experiences are emotionally embedded and take on an individual meaning which influences the unique emotionality of the adoptee’s adoption history. Even when the adoption experiences are positive and adoptees show a good psychological adjustment, the establishment of parent-child emotional bonds, communication about adoption, beliefs and the search for origins are a trigger for additional concerns and problems in these families. In this work, we will focus on these specificities of the adoptive context, presenting practices and forms of intervention in post-adoption period, with the purpose of (un)tangle adoptive experience.

Keywords: Adoptive Families; Family Therapy; Family Psychology; Familiar Relationships; Family Studies

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