Percepção parental acerca do filho adotivo: uma análise psicoeducacional

Abstract

The present study aimed to analyze the parents' perceptions about the adopted child. Twenty adoptive parents from the city of Joao Pessoa (PB) participated in the study. The majority were female (65%) and married (85%). A sociodemographic questionnaire and an semi structured interview were used to collect data. The statistical software SPSS (version 21) was used to perform the descriptive statistics, and the software IRAMUTEQ (version 0.7 alpha 2) was used to process the content of the interviews. The result of the Descending Hierarchical Classification indicated that the corpus of the parents' perception about the adopted child, subdivided into two sub-bodies: Socio-affective Development and Socio- educational Development, giving rise to six classes: affective reactions, emotional reactions, behavioral reactions, family relations, social relations and academic relations. It is concluded that there should be greater media coverage of positive experiences of adoption, especially from the parents' report, so that new representations about the adopted child can be built.