ArticleEuropean child & adolescent psychiatry2021
Early adversity predicts adoptees' enduring emotional and behavioral problems in childhood.
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- A comparative study of mental health and wellbeing in adopted children, children in foster and kinship care, and the general population.BMC pediatrics · 2026Article
- The association between traumatic experiences and anxiety among adoptees with autism spectrum disorder.International journal of developmental disabilities · 2026Article
- Unmet Health Care Needs of Adult Patients Adopted in Childhood: Insights and Recommendations.Annals of family medicine · 2025Article
- The mental health and wellbeing of care-experienced young people during early and later adolescence.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2025Article
- Professional Quality of Life of Foster and Kinship Carers in Australia, United Kingdom, and the United States: A Scoping Review.Trauma, violence & abuse · 2024Article
- Introducing Routine Assessment of Adverse Childhood Experiences For Looked-After Children: The Use and Properties of the Trauma and Adverse Life Events (TALE) Screening Tool.Journal of child & adolescent trauma · 2023Article
- Adoptive parents' finances and employment status: a 5-year longitudinal study.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Twenty years of emotional-behavioral problems of community adolescents living in Italy measured through the Achenbach system of empirically based assessment (ASEBA): a systematic review and meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- The impact of childhood maltreatment on aggression, criminal risk factors, and treatment trajectories in forensic psychiatric patients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Facial emotion recognition in adopted children.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Adverse childhood experiences as risk factors for recurrent admissions in young psychiatric inpatients.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2022Article
- Developing and Validating a Questionnaire to Measure Attitude toward Child Adoption: A Psychometric Process.Iranian journal of nursing and midwifery researchArticle
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Abstract
Children adopted from the public care system are likely to experience a cluster of inter-related risk factors that may place them on a trajectory of mental health problems that persist across the life course. However, the specific effects of putative risk factors on children's mental health post-placement are not well understood. We conducted a prospective, longitudinal study of children placed for adoption between 2014 and 2015 (N = 96). Adoptive parents completed questionnaires at approximately 5, 21, 36, and 48 months post-placement. We used time series analysis to examine the impact of pre-adoptive risk factors [adverse childhood experiences [ACEs], number of moves, days with birth parents and in care] on children's internalizing and externalizing problems, and prosocial behavior over 4 years post-placement. Adoptees' internalizing and externalizing problems remained consistently high over the 4-year study period, but more ACEs predicted increases in internalizing and externalizing problems. Contrary to expectations, more pre-placement moves and time in care predicted fewer problems over time, but exploratory analyses of interactive effects revealed this was only the case in rare circumstances. We identify pre- and post-removal factors that may incur benefits or have a deleterious impact on adoptees' outcomes in post-adoptive family life. Our findings provide knowledge for front-line professionals in the support of adoptive families and underscore the vital need for effective early intervention.
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