Road to Evergreen Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family

Name: Road to Evergreen Adoption, Attachment Therapy, and the Promise of Family
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ISBN: 9780801476860

ISBN-10: 0801476860

ISBN-13: 9780801476860

Edition: 2010

Authors: Rachael J. Stryker

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Reactive attachment disorder (RAD) is a psychiatric condition affecting children that is characterized by inappropriate and sometimes disturbing ways of relating socially to others, including parents. Relatively rare, RAD is thought to arise from a failure to form close attachments to primary caregivers in early childhood due to abrupt or prolonged separation, neglect, or abuse. In the United States, the incidence of RAD increased in the 1990s as Americans began to adopt an unprecedented number of formerly institutionalized children from orphanages abroad and from within American child welfare systems. To help resolve the extreme behavioral problems exhibited by their children, many…

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List price: $30.95
Copyright year: 2010
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 8/15/2010
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.65" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English

Rachael Stryker is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at Mills College.



Acknowledgments



The Evergreen Model of Attachment Therapy: Emotional Salvation or Economic Exploitation?



"Long Before We Heard of Evergreen": Adoptive Parents' Representations of Family



The Fuel That Drove Us to Care: Adoption Agencies' Institutionalization of Family



Prisoners in Our Own Home: Postplacement Realities of the Family



Good-bye to Birth Parents, Hello to Forever Family: Confrontation Therapy in the Clinic



Fast and Snappy, Mom and Dad's Way, and Right the First Time: Constructing the Therapeutic Home



Loving Each Other from a Distance: Life after Attachment Therapy Failure



Out of Evergreen: Theorizing the Social Reproduction of Attachment


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