Handbook on the Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults

Herausgeber: Bertocci, Doris; Mayers, Linda A.; Deeg, Christopher

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Produktbeschreibung

This collection bridges the voices of international scholars and adopted persons to share knowledge about clinical practice with adopted people in adolescence and early adulthood.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 518g
• ISBN-13: 9780367558666
• ISBN-10: 0367558661
• Artikelnr.: 68596439

Autorenporträt

Doris Bertocci, LCSW, is in private practice in New York after a long career in college mental health treating young adults at Columbia University. She had previously worked with birth mothers and adoption agencies and, in recent years, has been active in adoption reform. She continues to work in the interface of mental health, adoption, family law, and child custody litigation. Christopher F. Deeg, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist with over 30 years' experience treating adopted persons of all ages and those related to them. He is trained in cognitive behavioral treatment, interpersonal therapy, psychoanalysis, and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. He has several publications on the psychology and treatment of adopted persons. Linda Mayers, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist and psychoanalyst in private practice in New York City and has worked for most of her career with adoptive families and adopted people of all ages. She is an adjunct associate professor at LaGuardia Community College, City University of New York. An ongoing interest is in the developmental complexities of adopted individuals throughout the life span.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreward
Miriam Steele, PhD
Part I: Introduction- The Impact of the Adoption, Legal, and Mental Health
Systems on the
Development of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults
Doris Bertocci, Christopher Deeg, and Linda Mayers, Editors
1. The Larger Context of the Systemic Contributions from Adoption, Family
Law, and
Mental Health: How They Relate to Clinical Practice
Doris Bertocci and Linda Mayers
2.Where are We Now? Trends and Observations After Five Decades of Adoption
Study
in the Netherlands
Rene Hoksbergen
3. Challenging Adoption Narratives: Adult Adoptees Write Remembrances -
Four Australian Case Studies
Catherine Lynch, Sue Green, and Alison Ingram
Part II Developmental Complexities and Necessary Modifications for the
Assessment
4. Life Begins Before Adoption: The Primary Subsets of Adopted Persons as a
Guide
to Considerations for Assessment and Treatment
Doris Bertocci
5. The Adoptive Family Narrative and Its Effects on the Adopted Person's
Development
Steven Nickman
6. On the Inner World of the Adopted Person: A Psychoanalytic Conception of
the
Psychology of Adoption
Christopher F. Deeg
7. Shedding Light on Birth Fathers in Adoption: A Personal, Professional,
and
Academic Perspective.
Gary Clapton
8. The Ecology of Growing Up Adopted in India and Ireland: Measures of
Mental Health with Implications for Clinical Practice
Meera Oke, Sahana Mitra, and Valerie O'Brien
III Considerations in Medical Care
9. Adoption Medicine: Special Considerations in Pediatric and Adolescent
Medicine
and Young Adult Medical Care
Elaine Schulte and Laurie Miller
IV The Spectrum of Search and Reunion
10. Revisiting the Meaning of the Search
Doris Bertocci
V Complexities of Psychotherapeutic Treatment
11. Observations on Clinical Problems and the Need for Shifts in
Perspectives
Doris Bertocci and Linda Mayers
12. Notes on the Psychoanalytic Treatment of the Adopted Person
Christopher F. Deeg
13. From Fragmented to Firm Foundations in Identity Formation: A
Neurosequential
Approach to the Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults with
Early
Developmental Trauma
Alan John Burnell and Jay Vaughan
14. Similarities and Differences in Attachment Representations between
Late-Placed
Adopted and Non-Adopted Adolescents: A Study from Italy
Cecelia Pace, Stefania Muzi, Fabiola Bizzi, and Donatella Cavanna,
15. Countertransference Challenges in Working with Adopted Adolescents:
Notes of An Analyst in Private Practice
Anna Balas
VI Epilogue The Editors