Annotated Bibliography

Annotated Bibliography

Palacios, J., & Brodzinsky, D. (2010). “Review: Adoption research: Trends, topics, outcomes”. International Journal of Behavioral Development, Vol.34 Issue (3), pp.270-284.

In this article, the authors attempt to make a review the adoption research practices from the time span since it became a separate field of study. This article identifies three historical trends in research pertaining to adoption practices: firstly, the adjustment difficulties and differences in those people that are not adopted; secondly, the capability of adopted children to recover from their early stages of adversity; and last, the how the adopted children adjust, the contextual, psychosocial and biological factors ...