Adolescents adoptés :Un risque psychopathologique ?

In Western societies, psychopathological suffering of adopted teenagers is traditionally assumed to be related (only) to the initial abandonment and its consequences. As a consequence, teenager sufferings are likely to be reduced to adoption. As for any suffering patient, psychopathological disorder of adopted children should be actually understood from their entire personal life history - including of course the traumatic adoption event - but also from the filiation and environmental context/history. This means that the disorder may also root from the adoptive couple and its own history. The contribution of this paper is also to consider to which extent the encounter between the adoptive parents and their child (the mutual adoption) does also play a role in the adopted child's development.SCOPUS: ar.j