Emotional-behavioral problems, attachment and verbal skills in late-adopted adolescents: The role of pre-adoption adversities and adoption variables

Pace, Cecilia Serena; Muzi, Stefania; Madera, Francesco

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2021.105188

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“…Considering adoptees' increased risk for emotional and behavioral di culties (e.g., Pace et al, 2022), the unique adjustment challenges posed to adoptive parents in these challenging parenting circumstances (e.g., Foli et al, 2017), and the role that a secure attachment parental orientation -while promoting positive patterns of caring, availability, and organized adoptive parenting -might have on children's postplacement and future psychological adjustment (e.g., Hornfeck et al, 2019), it is important to devote particular attention to analyzing the explicative mechanisms of the relationship between adoptive parents' attachment orientations and children's emotional and behavioral di culties, in order to target them in future post-adoption therapeutic efforts.…”

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Exploring the association between adoptive parents’ attachment orientations and adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties: The role of parents’ self-compassion and mindful parenting

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Canavarro,

Pires

2024

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This study aimed to explore the association between adoptive parents’ attachment orientations and adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties while examining the mediating role of adoptive parents’ self-compassion and mindful parenting in this relationship, and to explore the extent to which the above-mentioned associations differ from those observed in non-adoptive families. Using convenience sampling and a cross-sectional study design, a sample of adoptive parents (n = 400) and non-adoptive parents (n = 333) of children aged between 2 and 17 years old was collected through an online self-report survey. Serial mediation models showed that adoptive parents’ attachment-related avoidance and attachment-related anxiety were associated with adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties; these relationships were found to be serially mediated by self-compassion and mindful parenting. Mediation analyses also showed that adoptive parents’ attachment-related anxiety was associated with adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties through mindful parenting alone. Moderated mediation analyses suggested that the association between parents’ attachment anxiety and children’s emotional and behavioral difficulties through self-compassion and mindful parenting was significantly moderated by the type of family. These findings contribute to a better understanding of the role adoptive parents might have on adoptees’ postplacement emotional and behavioral difficulties, highlighting the importance of their levels of self-compassion and mindful parenting; they add new information for planning post-adoption therapeutic services aimed to foster a positive adoptive parent-child relationship and, thus, the wellbeing of families challenged by adoption circumstances.

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Exploring the association between adoptive parents’ attachment orientations and adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties: The role of parents’ self-compassion and mindful parenting

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2024

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“…In future studies, it would be relevant to design an intervention to train caregivers with an adequate profile to establish supportive and close relationships with adolescents and to test its impact on the promotion of adlescents' emotion regulation competencies. Additionally, future lines of research should consider employing a mixed-method approach, considering also the preliminary control of other variables such as the type of maltreatment and cognitive verbal abilities (Pace et al, 2021). Using interviews to assess attachment organization and the emotion regulation strategies can add meaningful knowledge to understand the relational dynamics and how adolescents and caregivers make sense of important transactions and behaviors.…”

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Adolescents' attachment, quality of relationships with residential caregivers, and emotion regulation

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Tagliabue

Melim

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Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction Adolescents in residential care are more likely to report insecure and especially disorganized attachments, which lead to difficulties in emotion regulation and compromise the quality of their interpersonal relationships. In residential care, it is expected that sensitive and responsive caregivers are able to help adolescents regulate their feelings of distress, enabling them to experience a sense of emotional security. The present study sought to analyze the effects of the quality of attachment on emotion regulation and to test the moderating effect of quality of relationship (from adolescents' and caregivers' perspectives) on this association. Methods The sample involved 306 adolescents, 12–18 years of age, living in residential care and 70 caregivers. Results The findings underscored the importance of the quality of the relationship with residential caregivers on adolescents' emotion regulation competencies over time. The results also showed that the quality of relationship (emotional closeness) as perceived by the caregivers moderated the association between adolescents' attachment avoidance levels and their emotion regulation strategies. Conclusions The results are discussed according to attachment theory, and underscore the role the relationship with caregivers plays in the affective reorganization of adolescents living in residential care.

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“…Beyond clinical populations, the research identified specific groups as being more likely to suffer from mental health issues according to certain conditions (Lund et al, 2010; Walsh et al, 2019). Specifically, groups can be more at‐risk due to socioeconomic risk (i.e., those grown in low‐income environments or belonging to ethnic and sexual minorities; Giano et al, 2020; Walsh et al, 2019), medical diseases risk (i.e., intellectual disabilities or chronic physical impairments, e.g., diabetes; Austin et al, 2016), disaster‐related risk (i.e., earthquake, war, and pandemic lock‐down; Bryant et al, 2020; Doostgharin, 2009; Saile et al, 2014), psychological risk, like adults with subclinical mental health symptoms (e.g., nonsuicidal self‐injury), and biographic risk (i.e., childhood placement in adoption, foster care or residential care, as related to early disruptions of affective bonds, and/or placement instability or more exposure to child maltreatment) (Indias et al, 2019; Morantz et al, 2013; Muzi & Pace, 2021; Pace et al, 2021; Turney & Wildeman, 2017).…”

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The adverse childhood experiences—International questionnaire in clinical and at‐risk samples worldwide: A systematic review (part II)

Pace,

Muzi,

Rogier

et al. 2024

Child Abuse Review

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This systematic review aimed to (1) synthesize average means and prevalence rates of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) measured by the Adverse Childhood Experiences International Questionnaire (ACE‐IQ) in clinical and at‐risk samples; (2) discuss the ACE‐IQ prevalence and means according to participants' gender, age (both adults and <18 years old), and geographic area; (3) map relationships between ACE‐IQ scores and other outcomes; (4) detect methodological issues in studies. PRISMA guidelines were followed, searching studies in seven academic databases, including retrieval of grey literature. After screening, 23 studies were included. Results revealed the following: (1) several clinical (e.g., mood disorders and substance abuse) and at‐risk (e.g., criminal and low‐income) conditions were studied, with an average 4.93 mean and 81.74% prevalence of total ACEs; (2) there is a lack of data on males, with the prevalence of domestic violence and physical neglect being especially marked in minors, and no studies involving European and North‐American at‐risk samples; (3) ACE‐IQ scores were mostly related to substance abuse and risk‐taking behaviours; (4) major methodological issues were not‐randomized/convenience sampling techniques and a lack of methodological information on sample and procedure. In conclusion, the ACE‐IQ seems a promising tool in clinical/at‐risk samples, but more studies are needed to answer all research questions.

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Emotional-behavioral problems, attachment and verbal skills in late-adopted adolescents: The role of pre-adoption adversities and adoption variables

Cited by 8 publications

References 38 publications

Exploring the association between adoptive parents’ attachment orientations and adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties: The role of parents’ self-compassion and mindful parenting

Exploring the association between adoptive parents’ attachment orientations and adoptees’ emotional and behavioral difficulties: The role of parents’ self-compassion and mindful parenting

Adolescents' attachment, quality of relationships with residential caregivers, and emotion regulation

The adverse childhood experiences—International questionnaire in clinical and at‐risk samples worldwide: A systematic review (part II)

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