Proceedings XVII NATIONAL CONGRESS ITALIAN PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION CLINICAL AND DYNAMIC SECTION MILAZZO, MESSINA - SEPTEMBER 25-27 2015 Abstracts

Introduction National and international literature shows many studies and reflections about different aspects of adoption, especially focused on parents-child attachment relationship, as well as on children’s psychosocial adjustment. Current research directions in Psycho-Juridical work’s efficacy regarding adoption process and its outcomes are limited. Particularly, the adoption matching process evolves and develops over time, as strongly influenced not only by the characteristics of everyone involved (adoptive couple and child) as well as by the professionals’ actions that operators do before, during and after the adoption process. Objectives Our main objective is to examine the progress o…