Adoption, adolescence and behavior problems: Which risk factors?

作者：Habersaat S^*; Tessier R; Larose S; Nadeau L; Tarabulsy C; Moss E; Pierrehumbert B

来源：Annales Medico-Psychologiques, 2010, 168(5): 343-349.

DOI：10.1016/j.amp.2009.03.023

• Adoption
• Adolescence
• Behaviour problems
• Early privation
• Gender

Objective - To explore the impact of the age at adoption, gender and country from origin in developing problem behaviours for adopted adolescents
Patients - Three hundred and fifty-eight adolescents adopted in Quebec from 1985 aged from 12-to 18-year-old
Methods. - Parents-reported and self-reported questionnaires on problem behaviours, and information about adoption (date and country)
Results - We found that adolescents that have been adopted lately and from Eastern Europe were the most vulnerable to problem behaviours We identify problems related to adoption in itself and problems related? to age at adoption and country from origin But if children are adopted before 6 months or between 12 and 24 months, the country of origin has no impact on problem behaviours
Conclusion - It appears that there are two critical periods in which children are more vulnerable for change related to adoption The first is between 6 to 12 months, when differentiated relationships are created, and the second one appears to be after 24 months, during the stabilization of attachment processes.

• 出版日期2010-6