scholarly journals The Effectiveness of Group Therapy in Supporting Adoptive Families

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 01-06
Author(s):  
Shanika Lavi Wilson ◽  
Kristen DeGree ◽  
Christopher Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Group Therapy ◽  
Support Group ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Adoption Research

Adopted children and their families have unique needs compared to non-adoptive families. Adoption research seeks to understand these unique needs and contribute to a growing field of adoption competent therapy. The purpose of this paper is to understand how adoption competent group therapy can benefit adoptive families, and provides analysis on secondary data collected in 2019 from pre and post measures for a weekly support group from post adoption program. The research included 8 participants who were adoptive parents of adolescent girls, and included quantitative and qualitative data about how parents and their children responded to the program. The questions covered a variety of topics regarding the child, adoptive parents, and the parent- child relationship as a while. The results showed that from a quantitative standpoint, minimal improvements were made after the group, but the qualitative data showed that the group provided numerous benefits for adoptive parents.

Adoption: Lesbian and Gay Adoptive Parents

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abbie E. Goldberg ◽  
April Moyer
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adoptive Parent ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Parent Child Relationship ◽  
Gay Parents ◽  
Lesbian And Gay ◽  
Child Relationship ◽  
Adoptive Parenthood

Adoption by lesbian and gay parents is becomingly increasingly common. This entry presents an overview of the limited research that has focused on lesbian and gay adoptive parents. Specifically, this entry addresses the experience of adoptive parenthood for lesbian and gay parents, with emphasis on the decision-making process (that is, choosing adoption, choosing an agency, choosing an adoption type, and specifying child characteristics), the transition to adoptive parenthood, the psychological adjustment of the adoptive parents and their children, and the adoptive parent–child relationship. We end with recommendations for future research and implications for practitioners and policymakers.

Child–Parent Relationship Therapy for Adoptive Families

2012 ◽  
Vol 20 (4) ◽  
pp. 419-426 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kara Carnes-Holt
Keyword(s):  
Primary Caregivers ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Therapeutic Interventions ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Child Parent Relationship Therapy ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Child Experience ◽  
Relationship Therapy ◽  
Parent Relationship

Adopted children may present with a wide range of disruptive behaviors making it difficult to implement holistic therapeutic interventions. The number of primary caregivers, disrupted placements, and repeated traumatic events contribute to the overall mental health of the adoptee and greater number of occurrences increases the risk of maladjustment. Adoptive parents are faced with the challenge of developing a relationship and helping the child experience that relationships can be safe and trusting. Child–parent relationship therapy (CPRT) is a structured, time-limited approach that trains caregivers to be an active participant as a therapeutic change agent in their child’s life. CPRT therapy offers an empowering treatment modality for families striving to feel connected and secure.

scholarly journals “I’m More Than Just Adopted”: Stories of Genealogy in Intercountry Adoptive Families

Genealogy ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 25
Author(s):  
Sarah Richards
Keyword(s):  
Hague Convention ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Intercountry Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Family Work ◽  
Birth Country ◽  
Parents And Children ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Birth Family

In contrast to the historical ‘blank slate’ approach to adoption, current policy places significant emphasis on providing children with knowledge; family history; biological connections; stories, a genealogy upon which to establish an authentic identity. The imperative for this complex, and often incomplete, genealogy is also explicit within the Hague Convention on Intercountry Adoption established in 1993 to ensure that intercountry adopted children will be provided with a genealogical ‘heritage’. Yet, despite the recurring dominance of this approach, ‘heritage’ remains an ambiguous dictum which holds the expectation that adopted children should have access to any available birth/first family information and acquire cultural competence about an often distant and removed birth country. Providing such heritage becomes the responsibility of intercountry adoptive parents. It is therefore unsurprising that this role has become part of how intercountry adoptive parents perform and display their parenting and family practices before and after adoption (Richards 2014a; 2018). Such family work is explicit in the stories that parents and children coconstruct about birth family, abandonment, China, and the rights of adopted children to belong first and foremost to a birth country. Using qualitative data provided by a social worker, eleven girls aged between five and twelve, and their parents, this article explores the role and changing significance of narratives as familial strategies for delivering such heritage obligations. Outlined in this discussion is the compulsion to provide a genealogical heritage by adoptive parents which can ultimately be resisted by their daughters as they seek alternative and changing narratives through which to construct their belongings and identities.

When Love is Not Enough: Parenting an Adopted Child with Mental Illness

2017 ◽  
Vol 98 (3) ◽  
pp. 201-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele D. Hanna ◽  
Erin Boyce ◽  
Diane Mulligan
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Mental Illness ◽  
Child Welfare ◽  
Residential Treatment ◽  
The United States ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Treatment Center ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Adopted Child ◽  
Adoptive Families

This article presents the results of a qualitative study designed to explore the experiences of adoptive parents who placed an adopted child with mental illness in a residential treatment center (RTC). Twenty-four adoptive families from across the United States who placed an adopted child in residential treatment were interviewed. The adopted children represented various types of adoption including public child welfare, domestic infant, and intercountry adoption. Parents reported feeling victimized by their child and by the very systems designed to help them, including child welfare, mental health, health care, and education. The findings reveal signs of trauma in the adoptive parents as a result of their experiences. The article concludes with recommendations from adoptive parents for adoption, mental health, and residential treatment professionals who work with adopted children and their families.

Adoption as a natural experiment

2003 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 909-926 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFFREY J. HAUGAARD ◽  
CINDY HAZAN
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Adoption Research ◽  
Short And Long Term ◽  
Rare Opportunity

Adoption provides a unique opportunity for the study of child development. Because adopted children are raised in families in which they have no genetic relationship with their parents, and possibly none with their siblings, they provide a rare opportunity to study the relative importance of genetic, shared environmental, and nonshared environmental influences on the development of child characteristics and behaviors. Because children are adopted from a variety of circumstances and at a wide range of ages, studies of adopted children and their families provide researchers the opportunity to examine the short- and long-term influences of a wide range of environments on children's development. Because children are adopted into homes with a range of characteristics (e.g., multiracial homes), adoption provides the opportunity to study the range of influences of these homes on child development. Adoption research that focuses on each of these areas is reviewed in this article. We present conclusions about the value of adoption in psychological research and some reasons why many psychologists ignore the opportunities presented by studying adoptive families, as well as potential useful directions for future research with adopted children and their families.

scholarly journals PENGATURAN WASIAT WAJIBAH TERHADAP ANAK ANGKAT MENURUT HUKUM ISLAM

2019 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ade Kurniawan Akbar
Keyword(s):  
Islamic Law ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Legal Research ◽  
Adopted Child ◽  
Inheritance Law ◽  
Positive Law ◽  
Library Research ◽  
Mandatory Requirement

Abstract: The inheritance law is an approved law regarding the transfer of assets issued by a person who is delayed and the consequences for his heirs. In a will which is also called a mandatory will, a will is usually given to people who are not heirs. Mandatory obligation is a mandatory requirement for every Muslim to provide part of the inheritance to family members needed and for adopted children. The type of research used in this journal is a normative legal research method. Normative research or library research is legal research conducted by examining library material or mere secondary data. Normative legal research is to consider the relationship between the legal sciences and positive law. Mandatory wills are made as a basis by the Compilation of Islamic Law to provide part of the inheritance's inheritance for adopted children who may not be given a will by the testator, or adoptive parents who are not given a will by the heir (adopted child). The existence of mandatory provisions in the Compilation of Islamic Law is a bridge that determines the inequality that has occurred so far between adopted children and adoptive parents who have not inherited from each other, because there is indeed no provision to inherit each other between.Keywords: Mandatory Testament; Adopted Child; Islamic law;

scholarly journals Issues Involving International Adoption

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-39
Author(s):  
Brandy Mounts ◽  
Loretta Bradley
Keyword(s):  
Counselor Training ◽  
International Adoption ◽  
Adoptive Parents ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Family Counselors ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
New Family ◽  
Potential Child ◽  
Internationally Adopted Children

Challenges in adoptive families are well-documented; however, a lack of empirical research on the preadoption preparation of prospective adoptive parents for these common challenges exists. The purpose of this study was to seek a more thorough understanding of the education and preparation adoptive parents receive regarding potential child issues in international adoption. A qualitative research design was utilized to gain more in-depth knowledge of the international adoption experience that included preadoption education, transitioning into a new family structure, and services utilized. Ten participants, who are parents of internationally adopted children, were recruited for this qualitative study. Three research questions were developed regarding the challenges adoptive parents experience, how preadoption services could be improved, and participants’ perceptions of preadoption training. The following six primary themes were identified: purpose, attachment, challenges experienced, inconsistent preparation, support systems, and families utilizing mental health services. Recommendations for professional practice are presented, including more current and consistent training for prospective adoptive parents as well as recommendations for increasing the numbers of family counselors with adoption expertise and enhancing counselor training to address adoption issues.

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