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Post-adoption depression effects often has a significant impact on mother or fathers parenting. This can lead to behavioural problems in the child, significantly due to the lack of attention the infant received, especially when compared to a child to the attentiveness of a mother with more stable mental health. [4]
Studies have found that the stigma associated with mental health problems can impact care seeking and participation. Reasons that decrease the likelihood of care seeking include prejudice against people with mental health illnesses as well as just the expectation of prejudice and discrimination for those who seek treatment. [66]
Many other mental health organizations have interest groups or sections devoted to issues of culture and mental health. There are active research and training programs in cultural psychiatry at several academic centers around the world, notably the Division of Social and Transcultural Psychiatry at McGill University , [ 19 ] Harvard University ...
Research on the impact of sexual assault on health in women populations find that targets of sexual harassment experience a range of mental health outcomes– including depression, anxiety, fear, guilt, shame, anger, and PTSD– [99] and physical health problems such as headaches, digestive system issues, and sleep disorders. [100]
The Gesell Scale was made and became the most widely used by adoption agencies in the 1940s. This is a way of testing a baby's intelligence. This is determined through normal growth, development, and mental milestones. This raised some social and moral issues some children were deemed unfit for adoption because of their low mental test scores.
The Adoption Assistance and Child Welfare Act of 1980 (AACWA) was enacted by the US Government on June 17, 1980. Its purpose is to establish a program of adoption assistance; strengthen the program of foster care assistance for needy and dependent children; and improve the child welfare, social services, and aid to families with dependent children programs.
The Trauma of Relinquishment: The Long-term Impact of Relinquishment on Birthmothers who Lost their Infants to Adoption during the Years 1965-1972; Effects of Adoption on Mental Health of the Mother: What Professionals Knew and Didn't Tell Us. Still Screaming - the first major UK publication on the experiences of birth parents (Published 2001)
The study suggests that to identify and treat mental health problems early, care professionals and the adopting parents need detailed biographical information about the child's life. [ 144 ] [ 146 ] Another study in the UK suggests that adopted children are more likely to suffer from post-traumatic stress (PTS) than the general population.