The textbook discusses the causes of social orphanhood, shows the features of the social development of orphans and children left without parental care. The analysis of indicators of family resourcefulness is given and the model of selection and preparation of the family and the child for admission is presented. The problems of providing psychological assistance to the foster family are revealed . The features of the family upbringing of the adopted child are considered. The main directions of the psychologist's activity at each stage of family support are shown in detail: from the desire to take a child into upbringing and for the entire period of his adaptation in the family. For students , "Psychological support of the adoption process" , as well as for psychologists of educational institutions , specialists of psychological-medical-pedagogical centers and commissions , Social Security Institutions , Institutions, "School of Adoptive Parents" (DT)