Reconceptualizing Openness in Adoption: Implications for Theory, Research, and Practice.

By D. Brodzinsky. 2005

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2. M. Lamb
3. J. Palacios
4. Judith A. Feeney
5. D. Brodzinsky
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7. C. Peterson
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Citations in the corpus

• Family Structural Openness and Communication Openness as Predictors in the Adjustmentof Adopted Children (2006, background): “Communication openness is assumed to occur on three separate levels (Brodzinsky, 2005).”
• Adoption, attachment, and relationship concerns: A study of adult adoptees (2007, background): “…to the 1970s, the dominant type of adoption in many western countries (e.g., England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand) involved infants who were born out-of-wedlock, and whose adoption was based on secrecy and anonymity (Brodzinsky, 2005; Hoksbergen & ter Laak, 2005; Ryburn, 1994).”
• Mothers, Fathers, Families, and Circumstances: Factors Affecting Children's Adjustment (2012, background): “Children who lack a biological link with their parents also benefit when there is open communication with parents about the circumstances of their birth (Brodzinsky, 2005, 2006; Grotevant, 2007; Grotevant, Perry, & McRoy, 2005; Golombok et al., 2011; Jadva et al., 2009).”
• Post-Adoption Contact and Openness in Adoptive Parents’ Minds: Consequences for Children’s Development (2009, methodology): “…arrangement, what is primary for healthy psychological adjustment is the creation of an open, honest, nondefensive, and emotionally attuned family dialogue not only about adoption related issues but in fact about any issue that impacts on the child’s and family’s life’ (Brodzinsky, 2005, p. 151).”
• Review: Adoption research: Trends, topics, outcomes (2010, background): “Another illustration of previous efforts to understand adoptionrelated processes can be found in the work by Brodzinsky and his colleagues beginning in the 1980’s, which focused on developmental changes in children’s understanding and appraisal of adoption and adoption-related losses (Brodzinsky, Si”
• Children's Understanding of Adoption: Developmental and Clinical Implications (2011, background): “The ability to grieve adoption-related loss is tied to a family environment characterized by openness, honesty, and respect (Brodzinsky, 2005; Wrobel, Kohler, Grotevant, & McRoy, 2003).”