The Adoptive Family as a Natural System: Emotional Process and Epigenetics.
Emotional and epigenetic processes in adoptive families have a profound impact on the adopted child's development and life course. A common view of the family as a social or psychological unit with shared genes leads to a focus on the adopted child's genetic history and presumed lasting trauma assoc...
| Publicado en: | American Journal of Family Therapy Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 1 - 18 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
2026
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