Clinical challenges of adoption: Views from Montreal and Tel Aviv.

Adoption is accompanied by well-known risk factors that contribute to unique clinical challenges for children, parents, and clinicians. Adoption also serves to illustrate issues that remain relatively "silent" in the typical transition to parenthood. In this article, the authors review the normal developmental challenges that parents face during adoption, the adoption-related risk factors that may impinge on the child's development and attachment process, and the impact of adoption on the child's development of identity and filiations.

An infant who was born with a life-threatening skin disease: Various aspects of triadic psychotherapy.

A longitudinal case study of a 3-year-old toddler, born with a congenital, severe, life-threatening skin disease, with comorbid diagnoses of failure to thrive and feeding disorder, is described and discussed. The referral, diagnostic, and therapeutic processes are described, and the main themes of the treatment sessions are presented in the associative order that they occurred. The understanding of the case is very much based on the "me-skin'' concept.