ArticleDevelopment and psychopathology2021
Charting the trajectories of adopted children's emotional and behavioral problems: The impact of early adversity and postadoptive parental warmth.
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- Positive and negative parenting practices and offspring disruptive behavior: A meta-analytic review of quasi-experimental evidence.Psychological bulletin · 2025Pooled it
- The intergenerational transmission of reflective functioning in adoptive families: A prospective study from pre-adoption to early adolescence.Infant mental health journal · 2026Article
- Family functioning and psychiatric outcomes in children and young people with intellectual and developmental disabilities caused by rare genetic mutations.medRxiv : the preprint server for health sciences · 2026Article
- Family dominant hypothesis for the effect of family of origin on the mental health of offspring: evidence, mechanism, and implications.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- The moderating role of pre-adoptive reflective functioning in the association between early adversity and child difficulties after transnational adoption: a 4-year follow-up study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2025Article
- Adoptive parents' finances and employment status: a 5-year longitudinal study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Overlapping brain correlates of superior cognition among children at genetic risk for Alzheimer's disease and/or major depressive disorder.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Facial emotion recognition in adopted children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Adoption and trauma: Risks, recovery, and the lived experience of adoption.Child abuse & neglect · 2022Article
- The research focus and development trend of art therapy in Chinese education since the 21st century.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Review
- Aggressiveness in Adopted and Non-Adopted Teens: The Role of Parenting, Attachment Security, and Gender.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
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Abstract
Children who are adopted from care are more likely to experience enduring emotional and behavioral problems across development; however, adoptees' trajectories of mental health problems and factors that impact their trajectories are poorly understood. Therefore, we used multilevel growth analyses to chart adoptees' internalizing and externalizing problems across childhood, and examined the associations between preadoptive risk and postadoptive protective factors on their trajectories. This was investigated in a prospective longitudinal study of case file records (N = 374) and questionnaire-based follow-ups (N = 96) at approximately 5, 21, and 36 months postadoptive placement. Preadoptive adversity (indexed by age at placement, days in care, and number of adverse childhood experiences) was associated with higher internalizing and externalizing scores; the decrease in internalizing scores over childhood was accelerated for those exposed to lower levels of preadoptive risk. Warm adoptive parenting was associated with a marked reduction in children's internalizing and externalizing problems over time. Although potentially limited by shared methods variance and lack of variability in parental warmth scores, these findings demonstrate the deleterious impact of preadoptive risk and the positive role of exceptionally warm adoptive parenting on children's trajectories of mental health problems and have relevance for prevention and intervention strategies.
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