Post-adopción: del sueño a la realidad

Abstract

Over the last fifteen years, the increase in applications for adoption, especially of children from abroad, has obliged health professionals and governments to set up special services to oversee and provide guidance in key areas of post-adoption, such as psychosocial intervention, education, health, and legal issues. Of course, these services and care programs have developed the most in the regions with the highest demand for adoption. The articles published here describe the care and support services available to families in the post-adoption stage in Valencia, Andalusia and Catalonia, focusing on their approaches, their experiences to date, and the main problems they face. We also include a document on a specific aspect of postadoption –the right of adoptees to return to their origins– based on the work carried out by Adoptionscentrum in Sweden.