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Showing 1 to 20 of 24 for “"adoptive families"”.
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Developmental Differences of children raised in orphanages, adoptive Families and biological families in Lusaka, Zambia
… comprising the child's biological parents, an adoptive family and an orphanage. The children were matched for age and gender. The age of the participants ranged from 3 years, 7 months to 5 years, 4 months. The mean age for all participants was 4 years, 9 months. All the families and the …
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Developmental Differences of children raised in orphanages, adoptive Families and biological families in Lusaka, Zambia
… comprising the child's biological parents, an adoptive family and an orphanage. The children were matched for age and gender. The age of the participants ranged from 3 years, 7 months to 5 years, 4 months. The mean age for all participants was 4 years, 9 months. All the families and the …
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Understanding therapeutic support for adoptive families through the golden thread of attachment theory, constructionism and creative arts therapies
… individualised therapeutic support needed for adoptive families and the training required for creative arts therapists to effectively provide this support. Utilising attachment theory and constructionism as foundational frameworks, the research highlights the optimal strategies for aiding …
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21st Century Adoptive Families: A Longitudinal Study of Children Raised in Gay Father, Lesbian Mother and Heterosexual Parent Families
… are presented of a UK longitudinal study of adoptive families. At Phase 1, 41 gay father families, 40 lesbian mother families and 49 heterosexual parent families were visited when the children were aged between 3 and 9 years. At Phase 2, the response rate was 85%, with 33 gay father families, …
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Promoting parent-child secure attachment bonds in adoptive families through community-based family music groups: a heuristic grounded theory study
… music groups could foster bonding development in adoptive families. The subjects were 11 adoptive families with a total of 41 family members. Every adoptive family included at least one parent and at least one adopted child under three and one-half years old: siblings also participated. Data …
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Adoptees and adoptive families: an exploration of the formation of the legal family, the stigma of adoption, and the decision to search
… on adoption, and surveys of 41 adoptees and 15 adoptive parents in order to address four primary questions: 1.What factors have influenced adoption historically, and continue to influence current practices? 2.In what ways does the legal system treat the adoptive family differently than the …
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Grandparent Support for Families with Non-Biological Adopted Children
… and received support from grandparents to adoptive families and the impact it has on the families' lives. Qualitative methods in the form of semi-structured open-ended interviews were used to conduct 28 interviews with adoptive parents. My findings reveal that maternal grandmothers were …
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We Are the World: an Exploratory Study of Communication in Families Who Adopt Cross Culturally
This thesis is an exploratory study of how families who adopt cross culturally manage through communication issues of race, ethnicity, and culture within the family. While studies on adoptive families deal primarily with social and psychological adjustment issues, few studies on the family explore …
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Promoting Stability and Well -Being Among Families Who Adopt Children Out of Foster Care: Examining the Role of Formal and Informal Support
… a shift may be needed in the way supports for adoptive families are conceptualized and provided. Whereas traditional models of adoption support tend to be short-term, crisis-oriented and agency-focused, this study highlights the need for an ecologically-based model of adoption support that …
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Different constellation and shining stars: lesbian parents’ experiences of accessing healthcare for their adopted children in England
… gained by purposive sampling was of six lesbian adoptive parents. A combined data analysis tool was utilised which used critical incident recall (Webster and Mertova, 2007) and broadening, burrowing, storying and re-storying (Clandinin and Connelly, 1990). A composite character couple was created …
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Identity as experienced and explored in therapy with adopted children: An IPA study
… by trauma, many struggled to adjust to their adoptive families. The children had neg- ative views of the self, they felt persecuted by their history, both known and unknown. There was a sense of fragmentation and splitting. The therapists found adoptive families experienced social stigma and …
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Factors which influence the decision of unwed mothers to keep or surrender their illegitimate children to a public adoption agency
… the placement of their children with prospective adoptive families; (2) to identify and examine the sociological factors which appear to influence the natural mother to wither keep or surrender her child; and (3) to determine if the women contacting the agency in 1969 represent the same …
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Differences in Mother and Father Perceptions, Interactions and Responses to Intervention with a Special-needs Adoptive Child.
… may also be apparent in cases of special needs adoptive families with high demands of their child for time, interventions and attention. This paper examines the differences in mother-child and father-child interactions, child behavior as reported by mothers, and fathers and changes in both after …
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A study of U.S. adoption breakdown : exploring current factors associated with breakdown and challenging times in adoption adjustment.
… ways to decrease the risk of breakdown for families and children. This study seeks to take steps towards these goals through a systematic review of current literature on adoption breakdown in the U.S., exploration of present factors associated with adoption breakdown, and finally, by …
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Treatment Considerations For Adoption-related Complex Trauma
… child traumatized. Many adopted individuals and adoptive families seek mental health services in order to help address some of the symptoms that have manifested through traumatic events. However, the services they are receiving are reportedly lacking in basic knowledge related to adoption and …
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Adoptive Status, Social Capital, and Academic Achievement
… dissertation examined the relationships among adoptive status, social capital, and academic achievement. Data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) had 609 adopted and 11, 940 non-adopted adolescents. I used OLS regression models to help explain why adopted …
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The Creation of Families: Christianity and Contemporary Adoption
… thinking of many Christians about constructing adoptive families and the open, liberal stance of the state and Local Authorities. This tension was heightened with the passing of the Adoption and Children Act 2002 that drew attention to radically different viewpoints within adoption work. The …
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Adoptive Parenting From Placement to Adoption Order: “Long, Gruelling, Intrusive and in the End… Just Another Number on Someone’s Spreadsheet”
… of parental rights from birth parent(s) to adoptive parent(s) (Seymor 2019). This research will consider the lived experiences of eight adoptive parents during the process of adopting their children, all eight adoptive parents have been given full parental responsibilities through the UK …
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Adopted college students' family adoption communication processes: A mixed methods study
… Implications for practitioners, policymakers, adoptive families, and future research are recommended.</p>
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Family Experiences Concerning Adopting a Previously Institutionalized Child from Russia or Romania
The number of families choosing to adopt a child internationally in the United States has increased exponentially on an annual basis (Johnson, 1997; Miller, 2000). The purpose of this study was to understand the adoption process experiences of families who have adopted a child between the ages of …
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