Symptoms of adopted children presenting to a large mental health clinic
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Symptoms of adopted children presenting to a large mental health clinic.
The intake records of a selected sample of children adopted in early infancy are reviewed and their presenting symptoms categorized. A majority of the children's symptoms fell into the first 5 of 15 categories: Oppositional Behavior, Aggressive Behavior, Anti-social Acting Out, Academic Problems and Problems with Peers. While these symptoms are not uncommon in non-adoptive clinic cases, the aut...
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عنوان ژورنال: Child Psychiatry & Human Development
سال: 1978
ISSN: 0009-398X,1573-3327
DOI: 10.1007/bf01463216