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Adoption Beyond Borders: How International Adoption Benefits Children (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780190914813)
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Rebecca Compton
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xNow Available in Paperback, Adoption Beyond Borders endorses international adoption as a viable path to child welfare by exploring key topics including:
- Effects of institutionalization on children's developing brains, cognitive abilities, and socioemotional functioning
- Challenges of navigating issues of identity when adopting across national, cultural, and racial lines
- Strong emotional bonds that form even without genetic relatedness
- How adoptive families can address the special needs of children who experienced early neglect and deprivation, thereby providing a supportive environment in which to flourish
- Features the author's first-hand accounts of her own adoption journey as she visited a Kazakhstani orphanage daily for nearly a year, and illustrates the complexities and implications of the research evidence
Author: Rebecca Compton
ISBN-10: 0190914815
ISBN-13: 9780190914813
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2018
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
- Effects of institutionalization on children's developing brains, cognitive abilities, and socioemotional functioning
- Challenges of navigating issues of identity when adopting across national, cultural, and racial lines
- Strong emotional bonds that form even without genetic relatedness
- How adoptive families can address the special needs of children who experienced early neglect and deprivation, thereby providing a supportive environment in which to flourish
- Features the author's first-hand accounts of her own adoption journey as she visited a Kazakhstani orphanage daily for nearly a year, and illustrates the complexities and implications of the research evidence
Author: Rebecca Compton
ISBN-10: 0190914815
ISBN-13: 9780190914813
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 07/16/2018
Pages: 250
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d
By Rebecca Compton
xRebecca J. Compton is professor of psychology at Haverford College, where she has taught since 1999. She received her BA from Vassar College and her PhD in biological psychology from University of Chicago. Her previous research focused on executive function, attention, and emotion regulation in the human brain, and she has co-authored Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition (2018).
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