@article{ref1,
title="Psychiatric disorders and treatment in adoptees: a meta-analytic comparison with non-adoptees",
journal="Adoption quarterly",
year="2016",
author="Behle, Anika E. and Pinquart, Martin",
volume="19",
number="4",
pages="284-306",
abstract="This meta-analysis integrates the results of 85 studies on psychiatric disorders and treatment in adoptees and non-adoptees. The risk of adoptees experiencing psychiatric disorders, contact with mental health services, or treatment in a psychiatric hospital was approximately twice as high as that of non-adoptees. Elevated risks were observed for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorders, anxiety disorders, conduct disorders/oppositional defiant disorders, depression, substance use disorders, and psychoses. Larger effect sizes were, in part, found in clinical studies than in community-based studies, in studies with a higher percentage of individuals adopted after the age of three years and international adoptees, and in older studies.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1092-6755",
doi="10.1080/10926755.2016.1201708",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10926755.2016.1201708"
}