D.A.V.Ad: The First Bond Process Diary

In literature, the breakdown into adoption is considered to be the result of multiple risk factors concerning: the couple of parents, children and adoption professionals who work with the family. Therefore, it is useful to identify strategies to support the relationship between couple and children but also between couple and services. Experience the clinical utility of a new tool, a narrative diary, which explores what happens, in terms of emotional events and experiences, during the first meetings between the couple of parents and children, in an international adoption. We present a diary that was written by a couple who left for a trip (two months) for the international adoption of two sisters, aged 8 and 9. We analyzed the text considering "When, how and what" was "said" and the Parental Reflective. The diary highlights emotions and behaviors that are difficult to understand and manage by the couple of parents. the functioning of the Parental Reflective was 3. The diary is not a diagnostic tool. It is useful for the clinician because it is possible to reflect with the couple on the relational episodes reported. It is useful for a preventive approach and to support in advance the "therapeutic" abilities of the adoptive parents. The diary is a good pretext to help the couple's ability to think about the family relationship and what happens inside it every day. Help the clinician support the adoptive bond.