El bienestar de los adoptados internacionalmente en Etiopía y su seguimiento psico-social

Resumen

The phenomenon of international adoption has experienced an upward trend since 1997, and peaked in 2004, later to undergo a process of gradual decline. At present, the number of international adoptions has stabilized, which does not mean that adoption International lost strength as a research topic. One of the difficulties in understanding the phenomenon of adoption is the enormous variability in both the starting conditions of the children and the motivations and expectations of families. Therefore, it is especially important to assess the phenomenon in specific samples of countries of origin and specific historical moments. This thesis seeks to analyze the knowledge of the psychosocial wellbeing of children adopted from Ethiopia through the information reflected in the professional monitoring reports obtained from interviews with adoptive families and adoptees. For this purpose the adaptation of Ethiopian minors will be discussed in the areas of health, nutrition, sleep, evolutionary development, language, school, behavior and interaction, linking development, communication and racial origins experiences through professional judgment reports tracing; the influence of sociodemographic variables highlighted in the literature on the process of adaptation adopted in different areas that explore the monitoring reports adopted children noted above will be explored; and finally, it will be detected which are the areas of adaptation of adopted children with greater weight in the technical assessment of the professionals in the monitoring reports. The information obtained through monitoring reports of children adopted from Ethiopia through an ECAI presents a good level of psychosocial well-being and leads us to conclude that monitoring of children adopted internationally could be verification that the adoption It has achieved its goal as a protective measure. Monitoring can be evidence of the premise of the interests of the child by showing that the adopted child grows up in a stable and secure family environment that provides care, psycho security and possibilities of a full and complete development. For this check the welfare of children adopted internationally through the monitoring to be effective must come together efforts and motivations of families, professionals and administrations to move towards more standardized and common procedures take precedence over all the accompaniment families and children in its evolution as a foster family.