Promoting Stability and Well -Being Among Families Who Adopt Children Out of Foster Care: Examining the Role of Formal and Informal Support

These findings suggest 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 takes into account the evolving needs of adoptive families who are more likely to avoid family crises if they have access to supports from a host of informal and formal resources that include indigenous social networks, adoption agencies, and community-based helpers.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Human Resources and Family Studies

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Houston, Doris Marie

Contributors dc:contributor

• Kramer, Laurie

• Sociology, Public and Social Welfare

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI3086085

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/87782