BECOMING A CHILD: THE CHILD’S PERSPECTIVE IN THE LATE ADOPTION CONTEXT

Authors

  • Ivy Campista Campanha de Araujo Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
  • Célia Regina Rangel Nascimento Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo
  • Cláudia Broetto Rossetti Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5752/P.1678-9563.2020v26n1p40-61

Keywords:

Late adoption. Adoptive family. Child’s perspective. Bond.

Abstract

Despite the importance of reciprocity in the construction of the bond
between parents and children, late adoption is still performed in Brazil
favoring only the adult’s discourse, in such a way that the child’s feeling and
desire are usually not taken into consideration in an adoption process. Thus,
the study presented here aims to know the child’s perspective in the process of becoming a son/daughter to new parents, in a late adoption context. Our
procedures to collect data included semi-structured interviews, development
of a genogram and a biographical book. The interventions carried out made
it possible to conclude that through silence the child expressed contents that
reminded him/her of aspects previous to the arrival at the adoptive family,
showing to be unwilling to talk about the experience before the adoption,
however made it evident, through reports and drawings, the construction of
the bond with the adoptive family and the feeling of being integrated into
the new family environment.

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Author Biographies

Ivy Campista Campanha de Araujo, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Doutoranda no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo (UFES).

Célia Regina Rangel Nascimento, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Professora doutora no Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Desenvolvimento e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da UFES.

Cláudia Broetto Rossetti, Universidade Federal do Espírito Santo

Professora doutora no Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Desenvolvimento e no Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psicologia da UFES.

Published

2020-04-13

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