Adoption and Disruption: Rates, Risks, and Responses (Modern Applications of Social Work)

Beginning with an historical overview of adoption in its social policy context, the book analyzes the personal and social economy values of adoption, and the changing characteristics of adoptive children and families, and provides models of psychosocial adjustment to adoption. The implications for child welfare policy and services are explored in depth, with special attention to methods for identifying risk factors and to strategies for maintaining adoptions which have been identified as at-risk for disruption.
The book is abundantly informed by empirical research, including a recent large-scale comparative study of the child, family, and service characteristics of successful and unsuccessful adoptions.