Adoption Research

  • Bakermans-Kranenburg MJ, Steele H, Zeanah CH, Muhamedrahimov RJ, Vorria P, Dobrova-Krol NA, Steele M, van IJzendoorn MH, Juffer F, Gunnar MR. Attachment and Emotional Development in Institutional Care: Characteristics and Catch-Up. Monogr Soc Res Child Dev. Vol. 76 No.4, 2001

  • Berry, M, Cavazos Dylla, D, Barth, R, Needell, B. The Role of Open Adoption in the Addjustment of Adopted Children and Their Families. Children and Youth Services Review,Vol. 20, No. 11, 1998

  • Brodzinsky, D. Children’s Understanding of Adoption: developmental and clinical implications. Professional Psychology: Research and Practice © 2011 American Psychological Association 2011, Vol. 42, No. 2, 200–207, 2011

  • Curtis, R, Pearson, F. Contact with Birth Parents: Differential Psychological Adjustment for Adults Adopted as Infants, Journal of Social Work 2010 Vol. 10 No.4 10, 2010

  • Farr, R, Grant-Marsney, H, Grotevant, H. Adoptees’ Contact with Birth Parents in Emerging Adulthood: The role of adoption communication and attachment to adoptive parents. Family Process, Vol. 53, No. 4, 2014

  • Hafetz, R. Battling with Shadows: The implicit trauma of adoption. https://www.academia.edu/11458373/Battling_With_Shadows_The_Implicit_Trauma_of_Adoption

  • Lees, H. Adoption and Loneliness. Narratives of Loneliness: Multidisciplinary perspectives from the 21st century, 2019.

  • Lieberman, M, Morris, J. Long-Term Effects Of Adoption: An Empirical Study Of Adult Adoptees. The Internet Journal of Academic Physician Assistants. 2003 Vol. 4 No. 1, 2003

  • O’Leary, M, Baden, A. Birth Parents in Adoption: Research, practice and counseling psychology. The Counseling Psychologist, Vol. 33 No. 1, 2005

  • Mather, M. Intercountry adoption. Archives of Disease in Childhood, Vol 92, 2007

  • Tilden, G. Adoption & Trauma: The Experience of Being an Adoptee, https://www.academia.edu/32900094/Adoption_and_Trauma_The_Experience_of_Being_an_Adoptee

Recommended Books

  • Brown, B. Braving the Wilderness. Random House, 2017.

  • Laurino, M. The Price of Children: Stolen lives in a land without choice. Cavalier House Books, 2024.

  • Lifton, B.J. The Journey of the Adopted Self. Basic Books, 1995.

  • Murthy, V. Together. Harper Wave, 2020.

  • Small, C. The Adoptees Journey: From loss and trauma to healing and empowerment. IVP, 2024.

  • Verrier, N. The Primal Wound: Understanding the adopted child. Gateway Press, 1993

  • Wilson-Buterbaugh, Karen. The Baby Scoop Era: Unwed Mothers, Infant Adoption and Forced Surrender. 2017.

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