Art Therapy with an Adoptive Family: A Case Study of Adoptee Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder

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Title:	Art Therapy with an Adoptive Family: A Case Study of Adoptee Children with Reactive Attachment Disorder
Author:	Knapp Melkowits, Amanda Therese
Description:	The transition into adoption can be exciting and stressful for children. This transition, overlooked by the literature, may predict post-finalization success within adoptive families. Older child adoptees face unique challenges in developing complete selves, managing emotions, and attaching to new families. This can be particularly difficult when children suffer behavioral and emotional issues from attachment disorders and maintain expectations about being disrupted from these families due to personal experience. Art therapy can provide adoptees opportunities for self expression, behavioral management, and rapport/ trust development while demonstrating to the family the adoptees' willingness to participate. This case folows 16 art therapy sessions with a set of four children. Each adoptee was brought over from Russian orphanages by adoptive families. These children were disrupted by at least one adoptive family, were chosen to be adopted by the same family within two years, and were all diagnosed with reactive attachment disorder (RAD.)
Permanent Link:	http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=urs1210348357 http://hdl.handle.net/2374.OX/4222
Date:	2008

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