TREATMENT CONSIDERATIONS
Where children have suffered maltreatment and
disruption before adoption placement, they can
profoundly
affect previously well-functioning
adoptive families, and clinicians should be wary
of pathologizing these families as the apparent
source of difficulties. However, models that locate
all the difficulty in the child’s behaviour and abuse
history, seeing adoptive parents as ‘co-therapists’,
risk denying the importance of the child–parent
interaction; abused children can ‘push the buttons’
of particular vulnerabilities in adoptive parents, in
ways that are not necessarily predictable either by
professionals or parents.
An important part of clinical work is a history
of the placement, including the adoptive parents’
expectations, what information about the child
they were actually given, what potential difficulties
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