Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-329) and index.
Contents
Premises -- Assessment -- Treatment -- Fallacies about birth parents, and factors in the assessment process -- Services to birth families -- Marital therapy for problems of inferitility [i.e. infertility] -- Affiliation and assessment issues of adoptive families -- Therapy for adoptive families with young children -- Therapy for adoptive families with adolescents and young adults -- The adoptee as spouse and parent -- Search and reunion -- Open adoption -- Treatment of
variant forms of adoptive families -- Looking ahead.