Family Practice Vol. 17, No. 1, 94
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Children's adjustment to adoption: developmental and clinical issues
Professor of Primary Medical Care, University College London Medical School
DM Brodzinsky, DW Smith, AB Brodzinsky. (152 pages, paperback, £12.99; hardback £34.) Sage Publications Ltd, 1998. ISBN paperback 0-7619-0516-2, hardback 0-7619-0515-4.
This monograph is one of a series focusing on psychosocial problems of children and adolescents. The writing style is crisp and unexpectedly (for psychosocial literature) free from jargon and redundant phrases. The approach is evidence-based, though the authors do acknowledge the methodological weakness of much adoption outcome research.
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