psychological experiences of families with adopted child

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فاطمه علی اکبری

خسرو توکل

fatemeh aliakbari

khosro tavakol

abstract

abstract aim and background: adoption is a subject with prolix antecedent in historical society and culture. child acceptation affects on partner and kinfolk relation; so the family experience recognition help nurse to have deep knowledge about family relation. method and materials: in this phenomenological qualitative study, participants were 15 family with adopted child in shahrekord, iran. target based method used for sampling. data were gathered by means of in-depth semi-structured face-to-face interviews. data analysis was conducted using the phenomenological analytic method defined by colaizzi. findings: one hundred and sixty codes were extracted. nine main themes were obtained related to psychological experiences including parent role acceptation, adoption tools, interaction with others, child specification, mental changes, family relation, life changes, child acceptation and relation with child. conclusions: based on our findings, mental changes were the most important experience mentioned by families. adoption has some compensation for adopted child and consolidates the family basis.

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