Welcome to this Guide on Attachment.
The Library has produced a Series of Guides to bring to our users a snapshot of current thinking in dedicated subject areas. These guides are updated daily and we have included links to current articles and book chapters from PsycINFO covering attachment issues in children, adolescents and adults. There are also links to relevant websites and specialist journals in the field. Let us know if you would like to see anything else here, contact us at library@tavi-port.ac.uk

Key journals about Attachment

Attachment & Human DevelopmentAttachment Infant Observation Journal of Child Psychotherapy Cover image for Vol. 29 Issue 2

Wednesday 30 October 2013

Understanding adoption breakdown: using attachment theory to examine how the dynamics of the adoption triangle can be linked to adoption disruption - Parade@Portsmouth

 Adoption disruption is estimated to occur in approximately twenty percent of adoptions. The aim of this work is to produce a literature review that uses attachment theory to examine how the dynamics of the adoption triangle (i.e. the adopted child, the birth parents and the adoptive parents) can be linked to adoption disruption.
Methods: The terms “adoption AND breakdown” and “adoption AND disruption” were used to search a number of research databases and yielded over a hundred publications. These were filtered using relevant inclusion and exclusion criteria to produce a core set of twenty one papers (English Language publications between 2000 and 2013). The articles were critically analysed by establishing their aims, key findings, strengths and weaknesses. The data was tabulated and subjected to thematic analysis.

Understanding adoption breakdown: using attachment theory to examine how the dynamics of the adoption triangle can be linked to adoption disruption - Parade@Portsmouth

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