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Family Relationship Processes And Youth Mental Health In The Context Of Adoption And Foster Care: Revisiting The Developmental Interface Between Nature And Nurture, Gordon Harold
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
The salience of family relationship influences (inter-parental/carer relationship quality, parent/carer-child relationship quality) for youth mental health and development is well recognised and has a long and established research and intervention-study history. However, understanding the relative role of genetic (nature) versus family relationship influences (nurture) on child and adolescent development has significant implications for the design of efficacious intervention and support programs aimed at vulnerable youth and families, including adoption and foster-care. This presentation will examine the role of family relationship processes (inter-parental/carer, parent/carer-child) and outcomes for youth (emotional, behavioural, academic) using an array of novel research designs that allow us …
A Need For Fundamental Change: The Role Of Policy In Enabling Successful Families, Adam Pertman
A Need For Fundamental Change: The Role Of Policy In Enabling Successful Families, Adam Pertman
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
The basis for adoption-related policy in the U.S. is encapsulated in the mantra that every child deserves a safe, permanent and loving family. While this “child placement” focus is clearly vital, it’s also the case that the population of children and families served by adoption (as well as by the child welfare system more generally) has changed dramatically over the last several decades. As a result, many thousands of safe, permanent and loving families are struggling every day. This presentation will examine current policies of governments at all levels, child placement agencies, service providers and others who offer support to …
Birth Family Contact When Children Are Adopted From Care: Balancing The Well-Being Of Adopted Children With The Needs Of Birth Family Members, Elsbeth Neil
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
The adoption of children from care involves legally severing children’s birth family connections, often against the wishes of birth parents. When thinking about contact between children and their birth relatives, complex psychological and ethical issues must be considered. How can contact benefit children in situations where they have experienced abuse and neglect in their birth family? How can we address the issues of loss for adoptees and birth family members whilst holding the long-term well-being of the adopted person in mind? Is closed adoption without parental consent ever ethically defensible? This presentation aims to start conversations about these complex issues …
Achieving Well-Being For African American Children Adopted From Foster Care: A Successful Rural Model, Ruth Mcroy, Kathleen Belanger, Joe Haynes
Achieving Well-Being For African American Children Adopted From Foster Care: A Successful Rural Model, Ruth Mcroy, Kathleen Belanger, Joe Haynes
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
No abstract provided.
The Project On Genomic Family Health History For Adopted Persons: Challenges, Progress, And Where We’D Like To Go, Thomas May
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
This presentation will describe challenges faced in gaining support to study the potential utilization of genetic testing to fill gaps in Adoptees’ access to family health history (FHx) information. In this context, I will describe how this collaborative project has addressed: 1. Skeptics who challenge the scientific ability to provide reliable FHx information through genetic testing; 2. Economic obstacles to the use of genetic testing to fill gaps in FHx for adopted persons; and 3. The importance of this information as much more than mere “curiosity” in the lives of many adopted persons.
Adoption Contracts And Deals As Plan B Parenthood, Martha M. Ertman
Adoption Contracts And Deals As Plan B Parenthood, Martha M. Ertman
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Officially, law bans adoption contracts as baby-selling. But law professor Martha Ertman shows that people routinely enter entirely legal adoption contracts. Moreover, those contracts, and the mini-contracts that she calls “deals” help birth and adoptive families tailor the agreements to their situation. Blending memoir and law, Ertman integrates small group exercises with law and history of American adoption agreements, arguing that a contractual framework treats types of adoption as variations of family form, Plan B options when circumstances block the most common -- Plan A -- form of parenthood.
Cultural Socialization And Preparation-For-Bias: Critical Tasks Facing Adoptive Parents In Promoting The Well-Being Of Their Adopted Children, Ellen Pinderhughes
Cultural Socialization And Preparation-For-Bias: Critical Tasks Facing Adoptive Parents In Promoting The Well-Being Of Their Adopted Children, Ellen Pinderhughes
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Families raising adopted children-of-color, in same-race or transracial, domestic or intercountry placements, face the task of helping children develop a healthy adoptive and ethnic/racial identity and deal with adoption- or race-related stigma or bias. Research suggests that these are complex processes in which what parents do and don’t do matter for adoptees. After discussing research on parents’ role in cultural socialization and preparation-for-bias, we will consider how parents can promote adoptees’ identity development and well-being and how professionals can prepare/support parents.
Well-Becoming: Well-Being In The Context Of Relationships For Adolescents, Susan Badeau
Well-Becoming: Well-Being In The Context Of Relationships For Adolescents, Susan Badeau
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Children and teens need families for a lifetime, skills for successful adulthood and resources to support their safety and well-being. Positive social, emotional and physical well-being is a core aspect of a young person’s development. To be healthy and well, young people need to be able to develop and maintain relationships and social networks , effectively recognize, understand, and express emotions and maintain their physical health by making constructive life choices. This workshop will present a framework for well-being for older youth transitioning from foster care and highlight recommended strategies for improving the social, emotional and physical well-being of older …
Adoption Status And Social Network Inequality: Disparities Among Adolescents In Foster Care, Richard Carbonaro
Adoption Status And Social Network Inequality: Disparities Among Adolescents In Foster Care, Richard Carbonaro
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
No abstract provided.
Waiting Child, Ready Parents: Parents’ Perceptions Of Pre-Adoption Preparation For China’S Waiting Child Program And Child Well-Being, Sarah Elizabeth Neville, Ellen E. Pinderhughes
Waiting Child, Ready Parents: Parents’ Perceptions Of Pre-Adoption Preparation For China’S Waiting Child Program And Child Well-Being, Sarah Elizabeth Neville, Ellen E. Pinderhughes
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
No abstract provided.
Truth, Consequences And Reform: Rethinking Adoption In The 21st Century, Gary P. Mallon
Truth, Consequences And Reform: Rethinking Adoption In The 21st Century, Gary P. Mallon
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Rethinking adoption in the 21st century requires that all of us--adopted people, birth parents, adoptive parents, researchers, practitioners and policy makers--consider all possibilities, even those which might make us feel uncomfortable. The truth, the consequences of that “truth,” and the need for reform will all be explored during this presentation. The conversation will continue during the panel discussion with colleagues who are most affected by these experiences and also, hopefully, by the other workshop presenters and participants throughout the course of this conference.
Contextual Diversity And Microaggressions In The Lives Of Transracially-Adopted Children From China, Emily Zhang, Xian Zhang, Ellen E. Pinderhughes
Contextual Diversity And Microaggressions In The Lives Of Transracially-Adopted Children From China, Emily Zhang, Xian Zhang, Ellen E. Pinderhughes
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
A large proportion of transracially-adopted (TRA) children experience challenges related to their ethnic and racial identity alongside their adoptive status (Baden, 2015). TRA adoptees grow up in a different country and family from their culture of origin, which may be a barrier to opportunities to learn about their race. Therefore, it is critical to study factors that may contribute to a TRA child’s understanding of race and adoption. Microaggressions are particularly concerning in young children because these subtle messages may influence a child’s understanding of their race at an age when they are unable to fully understand social categorization and …
Emerging Adulthood In Open Adoption
Emerging Adulthood In Open Adoption
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Emerging Adulthood in Open Adoption
Emergent Adult Adopted Persons And Their Families
Emergent Adult Adopted Persons And Their Families
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Emergent Adult Adopted Persons and Their Families
Understanding The State Of Adoption Research Through Scholarly Network Analysis
Understanding The State Of Adoption Research Through Scholarly Network Analysis
Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences
Understanding the State of Adoption Research through Scholarly Network Analysis
Catherine Hamilton (University of Florida) Raffaele Vacca and Jeanne-Marie Stacciarini