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Cet article est basé sur un projet ethnographique qui vise à comprendre la perspective des différents acteurs impliqués dans le processus d’adoption dans la société polonaise contemporaine. Nous nous concentrons sur le traitement du passé de l’enfant lorsque le processus d’adoption commence. Nous analysons les dilemmes sociaux, les incohérences et les manières d’organiser le déplacement de l’enfant adopté, en montrant à quel point les pratiques d’adoption mettent en œuvre un silence partiel sur le passé de l’enfant. Nous proposons d’appeler le modèle polonais contemporain « (dis)closed adoption » pour le différencier autant de l’adoption plénière (closed) que de l’adoption simple (open). Ce modèle constitue un champ social défini par des valeurs conservatrices qui sont perturbées par des projets de modernisation tels ceux qui s’inspirent des droits de l’enfant. Ainsi les centres d’adoption et les familles tentent à la fois de déployer ce qu’ils considèrent comme des « bonnes pratiques » pour informer les enfants de l’adoption, tout en gardant leur passé inaccessible. This paper is based on ethnographic research aimed at understanding the diverse perspectives of the actors involved in adoption processes in contemporary Poland. Our focus here is on the child’s past prior to adoption and on the way this is managed from the moment when the adoption process starts. We turn our attention to social dilemmas, inconsistencies, and ways of managing the displacement of the child, and map contemporary practices in the partial silencing of the past that is involved in adoption practices. We propose to call the contemporary Polish model a “(dis)closed adoption” in order to distinguish it from closed adoption or open adoption. We see it as a social field defined by conservative values that are upended by modernization projects like the protection of children’s rights. In this paper, we focus on the ways in which both the adoption centers and families are gradually undertaking serious work in establishing good practices of disclosing adoption to children, while at the same time keeping the past unavailable to them.

Stress in the workplace, personal resources and professional burnout concern many workers in the contemporary world. These are common problems also among two groups of musicians: teaching musician and non-teaching musicians. The purpose of the study was to establish the dependence between occupational stress and burnout syndrome in these groups. The studied groups consisted of 94 musicians. The Perceived Job Stress Questionnaire, Maslach Burnout Inventory, Generalized Self- Efficacy Scale, The Resiliency Assessment Scale were used in this study. The data obtained revealed significant differentiation in a level of stress in the workplace among teaching musicians and non- teaching musicians. Teaching musicians differs in comparison with non-teaching musicians in general level of stress and four its factors: psychical balance of work, lack of rewards, social contacts and uncertainty at work. The data obtained revealed significant intensity of stress feeling at work in evaluated group. However, there are no significant differences in personal resources. To conclude: higher intensity of occupational stress is connected with the greater intensification of burnout syndrome and lower intensification of sense of personal achievements in investigated group of teaching musicians.