This text links the separate practice areas of placing adoptees as infants and placing adoptees as older children. It emphasizes the significant overlap between the two populations and the similar interventions that can be used when working with adoptees regardless of their age at placement.
VICTOR GROZA is Professor of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University. He is the coauthor of Special-Needs Adoption: A Study of Intact Families (Praeger, 1992) and more recently wrote Successful Adoptive Families: A Longitudinal Study of Special Needs Adoption (Praeger, 1996). KAREN F. ROSENBERG is a clinical social worker who has been in practice for more than 25 years. In addition to her clinical work, Ms. Rosenberg is a consultant for private and public mental health and adoption agencies. She has contributed numerous articles on adoption to professional journals.