title: Critical factors in the adoption of emotionally disturbed youths.
abstract: Critical factors in the adoption of hard-to-place youths were analyzed from a sample of 78 children and adolescents placed with adoptive families between 1974 and 1982. Tabular materials and statistical data are available to interested readers on request to the senior author.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D012649:Self Concept