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Simbarashe, Tinashe, and Herber Zirima. "Qualitative study on the positive implications of the COVID-19 lockdown in Zimbabwe." Global Journal of Psychology Research: New Trends and Issues 10, no. 2 (September 30, 2020): 189–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.18844/gjpr.v10i2.4788.
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Corona virus disease (COVID-19), a pandemic which emerged in Wuhan, China, in December 2019, has caused a global crisis with most nations resorting to adopting national lockdowns to contain the spread of the virus. While the pandemic and the lockdowns have caused distress, this study seeks to explore the positive implications of the lockdown in Zimbabwe. The objectives of the research were to explore the benefits of the COVID-19 lockdown to family life in Zimbabwe, identify the positive psychosocial implications of the COVID-19 lockdown on individuals and explore the coping mechanisms adopted by people dealing with the temporary change of lifestyle caused by the lockdown. A qualitative research approach was used, utilizing a phenomenological research design. A total of 10 participants took part in the study. Purposive sampling was applied to carry out the study. Data were collected using a semi-structured interview guide. The interviews were conducted using the WhatsApp platform. This was done to uphold the social distancing stipulations. Data were analysed through the use of thematic analysis. Major findings of the research were that parents were able to plan accordingly and avoid unnecessary impulsive buying. Parents had the opportunity to do a self-reflection. Parents and their families were able to seek God and be close to him through praying, read the bible and follow live streaming of church services online. Parents and their families stayed entertained through socializing with friends and relatives using social media platforms and by doing indoor exercises. One of the recommendations of the study is that the government should provide citizens with accurate and real-time updates to lessen anxiety among the people, as some people mislead other by giving false information. Keywords: Qualitative study, COVID-19, corona virus, lockdown, positive, parenting, implications.
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Gilkes, Liz, and Ivana Klimes. "Parenting Skills for Adoptive Parents." Adoption & Fostering 27, no. 1 (April 2003): 19–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857590302700104.
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At the suggestion of service users, Oxfordshire Social Services recently commissioned an experimental ‘parenting course’ for their newly approved adopters. Facilitators Liz Gilkes and Ivana Klimes discuss this project, which was run for Oxfordshire Adopters by the Family Nurturing Network, an organisation now well established in Oxfordshire. The course offered a programme for parents to learn how to best support their children's development and learning, how to manage difficult behaviour and foster self-esteem, and how to care for their own needs. It was evaluated by means of a questionnaire completed by all participants. The results were so overwhelmingly positive that Oxfordshire Social Services now plan to offer these courses as a rolling programme to all their new adopters.
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Mounts, Brandy, and Loretta Bradley. "Issues Involving International Adoption." Family Journal 28, no. 1 (November 25, 2019): 33–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480719887494.
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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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Adkison-Bradley, Carla, Cynthia Hawkins DeBose, Jeffrey Terpstra, and Yusuf Kenan Bilgic. "Postadoption Services Utilization Among African American, Transracial, and White American Parents." Family Journal 20, no. 4 (September 12, 2012): 392–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1066480712451255.
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The utilization of postadoption services among adoptive families has been an emerging topic of discussion over the last decade. However, what is often not discussed is the utilization rate of services among African American and transracial families who have adopted children from foster care. The purpose of this study was to explore the extent of the use of nonfinancial support services (e.g., participation in support groups or individual/family counseling) by African American, transracial, and White American adoptive families. Implications for family counselors will be presented.
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Cameron, Paul. "Child Molestations by Homosexual Foster Parents: Illinois, 1997–2002." Psychological Reports 96, no. 1 (February 2005): 227–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.96.1.227-230.
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Do those who engage in homosexuality disproportionately sexually abuse foster or adoptive children as reported by child protective services? Illinois child services reported sexual abuse for 1997 through 2002. 270 parents committed “substantiated” sexual offenses against foster or subsidized adoptive children: 67 (69%) of 97 of these mother and 148 (86%) of 173 of these father perpetrators sexually abused girls; 30 (31%) of the mothers and 25 (14%) of the father perpetrators sexually abused boys, i.e., 92 (34%) of the perpetrators homosexually abused their charges. Of these parents 15 both physically and sexually abused charges: daughters by 8 of the mothers and 4 of the fathers, sons by 3 of the mothers, i.e., same-sex perpetrators were involved in 53%. Thus, homosexual practitioners were proportionately more apt to abuse foster or adoptive children sexually.
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Allen, Jeanette. "The Adopter's Handbook: Information, Resources and Services for Adoptive Parents." Child and Adolescent Mental Health 9, no. 1 (February 2004): 44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1475-357x.2003.00076_8.x.
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Eriksson, Pia K. "Putting one’s best foot forward: Finnish prospective adoptive parent’s strategic interaction in statutory pre-adoption services." Qualitative Social Work 18, no. 2 (July 10, 2017): 325–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1473325017718060.
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In an inter-country adoption process, the private issue of becoming a parent takes place within a regulated institutional setting and process with professionals acting as gatekeepers along the way. This qualitative study based on 19 narrative interviews scrutinizes the strategic interaction used by prospective adoptive parents to navigate the controlling institutional setting of statutory pre-adoption services. This social interaction with the professionals is analysed as power negotiations and discussed by utilizing Goffman’s conceptual framework of expression management and stage play. The study shows that prospective adoptive parents, whose primary aims differ from those of the professionals, play on different teams than the professionals. Therefore, they utilize expression games through information, emotion, and team management in order to put their best foot forward in the pre-adoption services. But along the inter-country adoption play the audience shifts and the professionals often join the same team as the future adoptive parents. Further, the article discusses the consequences of this on the relationship between the professionals and prospective adoptive parent as a client within a global inter-country adoption scene.
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Fiorentino, Alice. "The complementary nature of linguistic mediation in transnational adoption mobility." Language Problems and Language Planning 42, no. 3 (June 28, 2018): 328–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/lplp.00026.fio.
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Abstract In order to explore why people in multilingual contexts choose one mediation strategy or another, we conducted case studies involving short-term mobility for adoption purposes. For parents who adopt a child born in a different country, the experience necessitates a range of linguistic strategies that include language learning, interpreting and translation services, lingua francas, and intercomprehension. A study of ten Italian transnational adoptive families shows that adoptive parents tend to combine these strategies according to the situational relevance of four mobility-related variables: parental agency, accuracy of information, self-reliance, and intimacy. The adoptive parents’ opinions about the benefits and limitations of each strategy indicate that mediation strategies are complementary means to reach the complex general purpose of acquiring parenthood.
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Raby, K. Lee, Heather A. Yarger, Teresa Lind, R. Chris Fraley, Esther Leerkes, and Mary Dozier. "Attachment states of mind among internationally adoptive and foster parents." Development and Psychopathology 29, no. 2 (April 12, 2017): 365–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579417000049.
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AbstractThe first aim of the current study was to examine the latent structure of attachment states of mind as assessed by the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) among three groups of parents of children at risk for insecure attachments: parents who adopted internationally (N= 147), foster parents (N= 300), and parents living in poverty and involved with Child Protective Services (CPS;N= 284). Confirmatory factor analysis indicated the state of mind rating scales loaded on two factors reflecting adults’ preoccupied and dismissing states of mind. Taxometric analyses indicated the variation in adults’ preoccupied states of mind was more consistent with a dimensional than a categorical model, whereas results for dismissing states of mind were indeterminate. The second aim was to examine the degree to which the attachment states of mind of internationally adoptive and foster parents differ from those of poverty/CPS-referred parents and low-risk parents. After controlling for parental age, sex, ethnicity, and socioeconomic status, (a) internationally adoptive parents had lower scores on the dismissing dimension than the sample of community parents described by Haltigan, Leerkes, Supple, and Calkins (2014); (b) foster parents did not differ from community parents on either the dismissing or the preoccupied AAI dimension; and (c) both internationally adoptive and foster parents had lower scores on the preoccupied dimension than poverty/CPS-referred parents. Analyses using the traditional AAI categories provided convergent evidence that (a) internationally adoptive parents were more likely to be classified as having an autonomous state of mind than low-risk North American mothers based on Bakermans-Kranenburg and van IJzendoorn's (2009) meta-analytic estimates, (b) the rates of autonomous states of mind did not differ between foster and low-risk parents, and (c) both internationally adoptive and foster parents were less likely to be classified as having a preoccupied state of mind than poverty/CPS-referred parents.
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Rushton, Alan. "Post-Placement Services for Foster and Adoptive Parents?Support, Counselling or Therapy?" Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry 30, no. 2 (March 1989): 197–204. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.1989.tb00234.x.
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Linton, Kristen, Andrea Birmingham, Loren Case, Laura Ezzy, Jandee Ferguson, Courtney Harrison, and Leina'ala Launiu. "Special Needs Adoption and Foster Exigencies (SAFE): A Model for Case Managers." Advances in Social Work 15, no. 2 (May 12, 2014): 334–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.18060/16429.
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Children with special needs disproportionately receive child welfare services in out-of-home placements, such as foster and adoptive homes. This theoretical model has been developed to describe or explain exigencies of adoptive and foster families of children with special needs (n = 82). A web content analysis, including theme, feature, link, exchange, and language analyses, of online discussion forums of adoptive and foster parents of children with special needs using a phenomenological framework was conducted. Inductive and quantitative web content analyses were conducted on themes. Parenting concerns were clustered into two main themes, disability and placement issues, and focused on children’s pre and post placement needs. A phenomenological analysis resulted in the development of the Special Needs Adoption and Foster Exigencies (SAFE), which outlines exigencies of adoptive and foster parents of children with special needs during engagement, assessment, and intervention phases of case management.
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Kim, JaeRan. "“You Can't Run into a Burning Building without Getting Burned Yourself”: An Ecological Systems Perspective of Parents Choosing Out-of-Home Care for an Intercountry Adopted Child." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 98, no. 3 (July 2017): 169–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.2017.98.28.
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Increasingly, intercountry adopted children have special needs similar to children adopted from foster care in the United States. Out-of-home placement may be necessary when less restrictive services have not adequately addressed an adopted child's needs. The experiences of 19 adoptive parents who chose to place their intercountry adopted child in out-of-home care due to their child's disability were explored through qualitative interviews and family ecomaps. Themes emerging from interviews relate to adoptive parent definitions of adoption and disability, challenges identifying and accessing services, and the effects of placement on their family, within an ecological systems perspective. Findings show the need for service providers to better understand the impact of an intercountry adopted child's disability and preadoption history on family adjustment, as well as to support parents through the out-of-home placement process.
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Weistra, Sabina, and Nikki Luke. "Adoptive parents’ experiences of social support and attitudes towards adoption." Adoption & Fostering 41, no. 3 (September 18, 2017): 228–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308575917708702.
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The internalisation of stigma by adoptive parents has been related to depressive symptoms and dysfunctional family behaviour. This study investigates stigma internalisation and perception, and their relationships with social support from family, friends and the broader community. The aim is to determine the extent to which adoptive parents feel that societal attitudes are stigmatising and how social support influences stigma. Data were collected using an online survey and semi-structured interviews. Participants (n = 43) reported that the motivation to adopt and the nature of the adoptive family are poorly understood by non-adopters and that the media portrays parents in an unrealistic manner, as either ‘heroes’ or ‘desperate’. Location was found to be significant, with people living in cities perceiving lower stigma than those in towns, suburbs and rural areas. Social support came from an extended ‘family’ made up of close friends, other adopters and religious communities. The findings point to a need for more extensive education on adoption in schools and the media, for increased support services in less urbanised areas and for earlier support for parents adopting from outside their local authority.
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Gibbs, Deborah, Richard P. Barth, and Renate Houts. "Family Characteristics and Dynamics among Families Receiving Postadoption Services." Families in Society: The Journal of Contemporary Social Services 86, no. 4 (October 2005): 520–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1606/1044-3894.3457.
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Postadoption services are an expanding service sector. This study determined the characteristics of families and children using a postadoption services program in New England. On average, children were 11 years of age at case opening and had been adopted for 6 years. Most had a history of maltreatment (57%), were adopted domestically (67%), and lived in adoptive families with married parents (82%). Almost all had received at least 1 other postadoption service (90%) and many (47%) had received 4 or more. Families' greatest concerns were child development and family relationships, with fewer concerns about culture, race, or birth parents. Although managing their children's behavior was a concern, families reported feeling effective and expressed considerable closeness to their child.
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Rijk, Catharina, René Hoksbergen, and Jan ter Laak. "Parents' and Mental Health Workers' Perceptions of the Therapeutic Needs and Experiences of Services for Dutch Children Adopted from Romania." Adoption & Fostering 31, no. 3 (October 2007): 58–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857590703100308.
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While it is established that international adoptive families are over-represented in mental health care, little is known about their experiences of mental health services. Catharina Rijk, René Hoksbergen and Jan ter Laak describe the experiences of eleven adoptive families and 12 mental health workers involved with severely deprived Romanian children adopted from institutions. Parents and mental health workers were interviewed. Reasons for applying for help, diagnoses, treatment method and evaluation are discussed. Most parents reported difficulties in finding appropriate care and had consulted several therapists before arriving at the current mental health service. Diagnoses often included cognitive delays, autistic symptoms and attachment difficulties. Different treatment methods were applied, in both outpatient and residential settings. Parents were more positive about the treatment outcome than were the mental health workers, the latter often having to consult colleagues about appropriate treatment. While the workers agreed that knowledge about adoption and the effects of deprivation are essential for suitable treatment, most of them felt that they lacked expertise for such work.
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Mas'udah, Laily. "STUDI HUKUM ISLAM TENTANG PENGANGKATAN ANAK (ADOPSI) DI UNIT PELAKSANA TEKNIS PERLINDUNGAN DAN PELAYANAN SOSIAL ASUHAN BALITA KOTA SIDOARJO." Usratuna: Jurnal Hukum Keluarga Islam 3, no. 2 (June 30, 2020): 61–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.29062/usratuna.v3i2.187.
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Implementation of Adoption in the Technical Implementation Unit for the Protection and Social Service of Sidoarjo City Toddler Child Care goes through 9 stages: prospective adoptive parents make an application letter for adoption of a child and written who the prospective adopted child is, filing the adoption administration filing stage, the adoption eligibility test stage with the holding of home visit I, submission of prospective adopted children to Prospective Adoptive Parents, the second step of the feasibility test of adoptive parents, the Recommendation Phase of the Social Service, the consideration phase by KEMENSOS in the PIPA Team session, certificate of granting permission for adoption of the child, finally the court's decision to determine the Court. The rights of children in the Technical Implementation Unit for the Protection and Social Services of Sidoarjo City Toddler Child Care have fulfilled the provisions contained in articles 4 through article 18 of Law Number 23 Year 2002 concerning Child Protection. In Islamic law, adoption of a child may not break the text between the child and his biological parents because it will have legal consequences for the child in terms of inheritance and marriage. In inheritance, adopted children are not included in the category of factors that cause someone to inherit each other, so that the adopted child has no right to inherit from his adopted father. If the adoptive parent wishes to give property to the adopted child it can be distributed by means of a grant while he is still alive or by will.
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Battalen, Adeline Wyman, Abbie E. Goldberg, David M. Brodzinsky, Ruth G. McRoy, and Summer S. Hawkins. "Heterosexual and sexual minority adoptive parents’ help-seeking and service satisfaction of pediatricians and mental health providers." Developmental Child Welfare 1, no. 3 (September 2019): 233–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2516103219873011.
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The aim of our study was to examine the associations between heterosexual and sexual minority adoptive parents’ adoption-related help-seeking and their service satisfaction with pediatricians and mental health providers. We examined associations with (a) satisfaction with pediatricians and (b) understanding of adoption by a mental health provider among adoptive parents who sought advice for adoption-related issues using data drawn from the Modern Adoptive Families study ( N = 1,419). Logistic regressions were used to examine associations with service-seeking and satisfaction with professionals’ adoption advice. About half of the sample adopted a child with either special needs at placement (55%) and/or preplacement adversity (74%), which were significantly associated with seeking adoption-related advice. Consulting pediatricians about adoption was common (78%), and 83% of those parents reported being satisfied with adoption-related advice provided by their pediatrician. About half (51%) of the parents sought mental health services, but only 41% of those parents reported having access to an adoption-competent mental health provider and 50% of those parents felt their mental health provider understood adoption. Parent sexual orientation, higher income, older child age, and having a child with special needs were positively associated with satisfaction with adoption-related advice provided by the pediatrician and having a mental health provider who understood adoption. Adopting a child with special needs at placement and an older child were positive associations of seeking adoption-related help, while parent demographics, including higher household income, were positively associated with satisfaction. Results suggest an inclusive family-centered approach to care is important.
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Kurebwa, Jeffrey, and Nyasha Yvonne Kurebwa. "Child Marriages in Rural Zimbabwe." International Journal of Civic Engagement and Social Change 5, no. 1 (January 2018): 40–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijcesc.2018010103.
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The objectives of this article was to understand the causes, effects and measures to reduce child marriages in rural Zimbabwe. Child marriages have serious social, economic, health and political implications on young girls and their communities. Young girls are also robbed of their locally and internationally recognised rights. Ending child marriages demands a multi-sectoral approach where all actors, such as parents, national governments, non-governmental organisations (NGOs), local culture, and religion are involved. This article relies on qualitative methodology to gather data. Purposive sampling and snow ball sampling methods were used to identify key informants and women who were victims of child marriages. Stakeholders involved in children's rights should provide reproductive health and education services to local communities in order to end child marriages.
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Beek, Mary. "Parenting Children with Attachment Difficulties: Views of Adoptive Parents and Implications for Post-Adoption Services." Adoption & Fostering 23, no. 1 (April 1999): 16–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857599902300104.
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Yang, Heewon. "The Respite and Recreation: An Innovative Recreation Service to Adopted Children with Special Needs." Journal of Youth Development 1, no. 3 (March 1, 2007): 89–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.5195/jyd.2007.377.
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Often, youth in the foster care system have traumatic experiences associated with abuse and separation from their biological family. These experiences may lead to emotional, psychological, and behavioral problems that challenge the new adoptive family dynamic. This article introduces the Respite and Recreation (R & R) program in a Midwestern area. R & R combines faculty, staff, and graduate students from a local University, local community resources, and staff from a local adoption agency to provide recreation, respite, and professional support services for children with special needs and their adoptive parents. The R & R program provides the adopted children with structured recreation programs for their growth, the parents with a break from stress, and volunteer students with opportunities to incorporate their academic learning into real life situations. Service learning programs such as the R & R also provide university faculty with excellent opportunities to conduct action research.
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Le Mare, Lucy, Karyn Audet, and Karen Kurytnik. "A longitudinal study of service use in families of children adopted from Romanian orphanages." International Journal of Behavioral Development 31, no. 3 (May 2007): 242–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165025407076436.
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Post-adoption service use and unmet service needs were examined longitudinally in three matched groups of children: children adopted from Romanian orphanages following a minimum of eight months' institutional experience (RO: n = 36); children from Romania who were destined for orphanages but were adopted early in infancy (EA: n = 25); and Canadian born non-adopted children (CB: n = 42). Data were collected when the adoptees had been in their adoptive homes for 11 months, at age 4.5 years and 10.5 years. Results indicated higher rates of service use and unmet service needs across time in the RO group. Unmet service needs in the RO group may be due in part to the unique challenges faced by post-institutionalized adoptees. Service use in the EA group jumped significantly at Phase 3, suggesting that the impact of their lesser degree of early deprivation was seen later in development under the additional challenge and stress of the demands of school. Findings, particularly from the EA group, supported the suggestion that adoptive parents have a lower threshold for referring their children for clinical services than do non-adoptive parents. Service needs of adoptees changed over time and those with unmet needs experienced greater challenges than those whose service needs were met.
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Ward, B. W. "Adoptive parents' suspicion of preadoption abuse of their adopted children and the use of support services." Child: Care, Health and Development 38, no. 2 (May 5, 2011): 175–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-2214.2011.01245.x.
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Farnfield, Steve. "Attachment and the loss of fertility: the attachment strategies of prospective adoptive parents." Journal of Children's Services 14, no. 2 (June 6, 2019): 78–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jcs-11-2017-0049.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper was to determine the attachment strategies of prospective adoptive parents and any correlation between attachment and the defensive strategies they used when talking about loss of fertility. The study also examined whether attachment strategy of the applicants had a bearing on the decision by the local authority to place a child. Design/methodology/approach The sample was comprised of 48 respondents (21 couples) representing 84 per cent of all people who applied to one UK Social Services Department in a 12-month period. Placement of a child was reviewed two years following the assessment. The study used the dynamic maturational model version of the adult attachment interview (DMM-AAI), together with added questions on loss of fertility to assess the applicants’ attachment strategies together with unresolved loss and trauma and the DMM modifiers. Findings Unlike adoption studies using the Main and Goldwyn system, this study rated very few of the applicants’ AAIs as secure (13 per cent), 48 per cent were in the normative low-risk range and 52 per cent of the AAIs were coded in the more complex DMM insecure strategies. There was a significant bias towards marriages where the partners deployed opposite low-risk/DMM strategies (13 (62 per cent) of couples). Compared with data on non-clinical populations the AAIs showed a high level of unresolved loss or trauma (58 per cent). Using a six-way distribution (A1-2, C1-2, B, A3-4, C3-6 and A/C) there was an 87 per cent correspondence between discourse about loss of fertility and that about attachment, thereby supporting the established proposition that reproduction is part of the attachment system. Twenty one per cent of the AAIs were coded as “disorientated” and this is discussed in terms of conflict for adoptive of parents concerning the raising of a child who carries their own genes or those of strangers. A case is made to conceptualise negative impact of infertility in terms of unresolved trauma rather than loss. Research - limitations/implications This study adds to research showing that the DMM approach is more finely calibrated than the ABC+disorganised model with the latter likely over coding for security. The results emphasise that fertility and reproduction are legitimate subjects for attachment studies and that AAI discourse analysis is a valid methodology for future research. However coder agreement as to whether or not loss of fertility was resolved was only fair (64 per cent) κ. 0.25 (po0.33). More work is required in order to determine what constitutes unresolved loss of fertility and what impact, if any, this has on parenting an adopted child. Practical implications The practice implications are considered in a separate paper. Social implications The findings are contentious in that they suggest a significant number (48 per cent) of adoptive parents have needs not dissimilar to other clients of psychological services. Originality/value This is the first DMM-AAI study with prospective adoptive parents and the findings show significant differences when compared with previous studies using the Main and Goldwyn AAI. It is also the first study to establish fertility as a legitimate area for attachment studies by using AAI discourse analysis.
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Rushton, Alan, Elizabeth Monck, Morven Leese, Paul McCrone, and Jessica Sharac. "Enhancing adoptive parenting: A randomized controlled trial." Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry 15, no. 4 (October 2010): 529–42. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359104510365041.
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The aim was to conduct a pragmatic randomized controlled trial (RCT) to evaluate two parenting programmes designed for adopters of children late placed from care. Adoptive parents, with children between 3 and 8 years who were screened to have serious behavioural problems early in the placement, participated in home-based, manualized, parenting programmes delivered by trained and supervised family social workers. The adopters who agreed to join the study were randomly allocated to one of two parenting interventions or to a “services as usual” group. Baseline, immediate post-intervention and six-month follow-ups were assessed using questionnaires and adopter interviews. No cases were lost to follow-up at any point and satisfaction was high with both parenting interventions. At the six-month follow-up, a significant difference ( p < 0.007) was found for “satisfaction with parenting” in favour of the intervention group (Effect Size d = 0.7). Negative parenting approaches were reduced in the intervention group. However, no significant differences in child problems were found between the intervention groups and control group, adjusting for baseline scores. Costs analysis showed that a relatively modest investment in post-adoption support would be well spent in improving adopters’ satisfaction with parenting in the intervention group compared to the routine service group.
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Rushton, Alan. "Support for Adoptive Families: A Review of Current Evidence on Problems, Needs and Effectiveness." Adoption & Fostering 27, no. 3 (October 2003): 41–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/030857590302700308.
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This review of research literature is concerned with selected aspects of adoption support, namely the problems for the placed children, the characteristics of the new families, the needs of both children and parents for services and what is known about the effectiveness of interventions for placements in difficulty. Alan Rushton identifies the most useful findings and considers their relevance for providing a modernised adoption support service. He concludes that knowledge is accumulating in many areas although more evaluative research needs to be conducted on promising interventions.
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Alessia, Kate, and Louise Roufeil. "‘It's Quite a Journey’: Australian Parents’ Experience of Adopting Older Children from Overseas Orphanages." Children Australia 37, no. 4 (November 6, 2012): 161–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/cha.2012.37.
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Intercountry adoption, often of children post-infancy, is one way of forming a family in Australia. However, few studies have invited Australian parents who have incorporated older children into their family to tell their story. Fathers are under-represented in studies of parenting generally and adoptive parenting specifically.As part requirement for a clinical psychology dissertation, with ethics approval from the relevant university, 28 parents (13 fathers and 15 mothers) were interviewed about their experiences of adopting children over the age of 24 months from orphanages in China, Ethiopia, India and Thailand. Although parents’ experiences and recollections were diverse, almost all parents had been confronted by difficult child behaviours, at least initially. Contrary to previous research, the child's gender, age or duration of institutional care did not appear related to parental experience.Six major themes emerged from parent interviews: (1) the long wait and intense emotions of adoption; (2) disparity between expectations and reality; (3) recognition of children's difficult past experiences; (4) parenting as a path to self-discovery; (5) the perception of needing to present as coping; and (6) unmet needs. Mothers blamed themselves for their children's behavioural problems, rather than attributing difficulties to children's previous adverse life events. Both mothers and fathers were reluctant to use support services because they felt scrutinised and feared repercussions, and those who sought assistance generally found professionals ill-informed and unhelpful. Parents made recommendations about how the adoptive parenting process could be improved and expressed a strong desire for more information, both pre- and post-placement.
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Skovdal, Morten, Rufurwokuda Maswera, Noah Kadzura, Constance Nyamukapa, Rebecca Rhead, Alison Wringe, and Simon Gregson. "Parental obligations, care and HIV treatment: How care for others motivates self-care in Zimbabwe." Journal of Health Psychology 25, no. 13-14 (July 20, 2018): 2178–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1359105318788692.
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This article examines how parental obligations of care intersect with HIV treatment-seeking behaviours and retention. It draws on qualitative data from eastern Zimbabwe, produced from 65 interviews. Drawing on theories of practice and care ethics, our analysis revealed that norms of parental obligation and care acted as key motivators for ongoing engagement with HIV services and treatment. Parents’ attentiveness to the future needs of their children ( caring about), and sense of obligation ( taking care of) and improved ability to care ( caregiving) following treatment initiation, emerged as central to understanding their drive for self-care and engagement with HIV services.
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Sánchez-Sandoval, Yolanda, Natalia Jiménez-Luque, Sandra Melero, Violeta Luque, and Laura Verdugo. "Support Needs and Post-Adoption Resources for Adopted Adults: A Systematic Review." British Journal of Social Work 50, no. 6 (October 5, 2019): 1775–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/bjsw/bcz109.
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Abstract Post-adoption services provide guidance to adoptive families concerning common and specific circumstances. Despite adoption is a lifelong experience, most of the post-adoption resources are oriented towards children, adolescents and their adoptive parents. However, it is also necessary to focus on the demands and interventions with adult adoptees. The aim of this article is to review adult adoptees’ demands for post-adoption resources, applicants’ characteristics and resources offered to them. A systematic search was conducted in several databases, finding forty studies that fulfilled the selection criteria (about adults, domestic/international adoptions and published between 2005 and 2018). The included studies showed mainly three needs: contact with birth family, ethnic identity and birth culture, and psychological support. Additionally, adoptees who demand post-adoption resources are a heterogeneous group. This review collects structured programmes focused on different topics: search for origins, attachment development and professionals’ training in adoption. In addition, we also found some specific post-adoption services and other tools, such as support groups or cultural events. Finally, adoptees also have access to other resources that are not specifically for them, such as mental health services. The scarce existence of evidence-based interventions is an important weakness in this work. Recommendations for future research and practice are included.
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Eriksson, Pia. "Fear of loss of a wanted child: emotional accounts of Finnish prospective adoptive parents in pre-adoption services." Adoption & Fostering 40, no. 3 (September 9, 2016): 209–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308575916661270.
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Mellon, Hugh. "Charter Rights and Public Policy Choices: The Supreme Court and Public Finance." Constitutional Forum / Forum constitutionnel 15, no. 1, 2 & 3 (July 24, 2011): 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.21991/c94h3h.
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Over the past two decades there have been numerous highly charged court cases involving claims that government program offerings and public spending fail to satisfy guarantees entrenched in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.1 Calls for enhanced appeal mechanism in refugee determination,2 provincial health care coverage of hospital translation services for the deaf,3 equal leave provisions4 for both adoptive and birth parents, government coverage of autism treatment regimes,5 and access to health care provision rather than access to a waiting list6 all illustrate the intersection of the Charter with the allocation of the public purse.
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Barnett, Erin R., Sarah E. Cleary, Rebecca L. Butcher, and Mary K. Jankowski. "Children’s behavioral health needs and satisfaction and commitment of foster and adoptive parents: Do trauma-informed services make a difference?" Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy 11, no. 1 (January 2019): 73–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/tra0000357.
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Walton, Jessica. "Supporting the Interests of Intercountry Adoptees beyond Childhood: Access to Adoption Information and Identity." Social Policy and Society 11, no. 3 (April 4, 2012): 443–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746412000115.
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Drawing on select examples of adoption policy, this article considers key assumptions in discourse about ‘the best interests of the child’. The central argument is that the life-long impact of adoption needs to be recognised so that the long-term interests of adoptees are met, and not only when they are children. Based on doctoral research into the experiences of adult Korean adoptees in the United States and Australia, this article argues that currently post-adoption services are geared to adoptive parents and the adoptee-as-child and do not adequately address the needs of adoptees beyond childhood. Accurate and accessible information is important for adoptees as they try to understand their past and make sense of their identities.
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Čižikienė, Janina. "INSTITUTIONAL CARE SYSTEM TRANSFORMATION: TRENDS AND PERSPECTIVES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CHILD CARE INSTITUTIONS." Education Reform in Comprehensive School: Education Content Research and Implementation Problems 2 (November 27, 2018): 22. http://dx.doi.org/10.17770/ercs2018.2.3652.
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This article analyses the transformation of the social childcare system in Lithuania, which aims at eliminating institutional childcare homes by the year 2020 and the placement of parental care for children in families of adoptive parents and carers, and returning them to biological parents. However, during the transition period, patronage impairment is noticeable, and municipalities choose an intermediate option and place children in community homes that provide short-term or long-term social care. It provides social services to a social care institution, in which the community in a separate room (house, apartment) family-friendly environment model houses up to 8 children in the home environment. When providing social services to parental care, it is necessary to understand the importance of deinstitutionalisation in the system of social services and to model their activities towards the home environment, bearing in mind that the process of deinstitutionalisation involves a change in the formation of a permanent custody, the services that best suit the individual interests of each child, taking into account their needs for growth and improve. This can only be achieved by improving the human resources capabilities of social service organizations by providing the right knowledge to provide tailor-made services based on results-oriented work principles.Applied research methods are analysis of scientific literature and documents, interviews with social workers of a community nursing home, analysis and interpretation of research results. The review of scientific literature and research data presented in the article reveal the problems of the institutional care transformation process and the challenges of transforming the children's care homes and developing the activities of community child care homes.
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Menezes, S. B. "Parricides by mentally disordered offenders in Zimbabwe." Medicine, Science and the Law 50, no. 3 (July 2010): 126–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1258/msl.2010.010012.
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Aim The aim of this study was to examine the similarities and differences between matricide and patricide committed by mentally disordered offenders in Zimbabwe. Methods A comprehensive, retrospective and national study was carried out of all individuals in Zimbabwe who, between 1980 and 1990 inclusive, were charged with homicide of their biological parents. The data were obtained from a hospital-wide survey, in a written semistructured format. Results The sample size was 39 offenders (34 men, 5 women) and there were 39 victims (20 matricides and 19 patricides). Sons committed 18 patricides and 16 matricides, and daughters committed one patricide and four matricides. The mean age of the offenders was 35 years with a standard deviation of 9.8, and the mean age of the victims was 60 years with a standard deviation of 9.3. Ethnicity of all the offenders and their victims was African. About one-third of the offenders were known to the psychiatric services and the rest were found to be mentally ill at the time of the crime when they were tried in the court of law. Most of the offenders were suffering from a psychotic illness and one offender had a diagnosis of personality disorder. Half of the offenders had been to a traditional healer some time before committing the crime. Most of the offenders used a blunt instrument, 15 used sharp instruments and one woman used strangulation. Firearms were not used in committing parricide. Conclusion The study showed that sons committed most parricides. However, daughters committed matricide more frequently than patricide. Male offenders were 10 years younger than female offenders. In all cases both the offender and victim were African, and lived in the same house in the rural areas of Zimbabwe. Psychosis among the offenders had substantially increased the risk of parricide.
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Mukushi, A. T., J. C. Makhubele, and V. Mabvurira. "Cultural and Religious Beliefs and Practices Abusive to Children With Disabilities in Zimbabwe." Global Journal of Health Science 11, no. 7 (June 11, 2019): 103. http://dx.doi.org/10.5539/gjhs.v11n7p103.
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This study sought to explore religious practices and beliefs that violate the rights of children with disabilities in Zimbabwe. The authors employed a qualitative approach in exploring cultural and religious beliefs and practices abusive to children with disabilities. Authors used exploratory-descriptive case study design and purposive sampling in selecting participants. Data collection took place in Dzivarasekwa, a high-density suburb in Harare among children who were receiving rehabilitation services at Harare Hospital and their caregivers. The study established that children with disabilities who come from some apostolic families are disadvantaged, as their parents believe that demonic spirits causes disability. This then leads to heightened levels of discrimination. The study also found out that there are remedial but harmful cultural and religious practices. The study recommends that rigorous awareness raising is needed for communities to support people with disabilities, formation of support groups amongst people with disabilities themselves, introducing holistic interventions that address issues of cultural and religious beliefs and continuous training for frontline workers to keep in touch with current best practices, policies and laws around disabilities.
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King, Sadie, Matt Gieve, Giorgia Iacopini, Anna Sophie Hahne, and Heather Stradling. "Are the early benefits of the Adoption Support Fund (therapeutic support for adoptive families) sustainable?" Journal of Public Mental Health 18, no. 1 (March 18, 2019): 66–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jpmh-08-2018-0056.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore the wider context in which the national evaluation of the Adoption Support Fund (ASF) was delivered and raise concerns about the sustainability of the early outcomes. Design/methodology/approach The paper briefly summarises the outcomes of a two-year mixed-methods evaluation. This included a two-wave postal survey (n=792) and follow-up (n=481), an online survey of adopters (n=586) and professionals (providers n=50, local authority staff n=124) and in-depth family interviews. The focus of the discussion on sustainability is drawn from the qualitative research of 10 local authority case studies based on 86 interviews with adoption teams and 33 providers and the perspectives of parents. Findings Whilst the ASF showed modest early outcomes for families in terms of improved mental health and wellbeing without the scaffolding of wider support of services able to understand the complex lifelong needs of adoptive children and their families, the sustainability of the benefits of therapeutic support is questioned. Adoption teams struggled with the increased burden of administration of the fund, their knowledge of therapeutic interventions, an evidence base and quality of provision from a market that is difficult to regulate. In a society that is failing to meet the mental health and wellbeing needs of children generally, how can a single intervention meet the needs of a very vulnerable group? Research limitations/implications Research and evaluation on interventions in children’s social care could be more systems aware and instead of narrowly focusing on outcomes pay attention to the complex network of services that interlink to support vulnerable children and their families and the restraints on resources that they are working with. Social implications To prevent adoption breakdown and increase recruitment of adopters, support for adoptive families needs to be improved beyond the current scope of the ASF. A wide range of services are required to support adopted children particularly as they grow into adolescence. While families have the right to live independently of social services, the awareness of their needs throughout public organisations should be raised particularly in schools. Originality/value This paper represents the views of the evaluators at TIHR of the ASF beyond the scope of the original evaluation. It reflects on the wider context of the role out of the Fund and raises important questions about the failure to support the mental health and wellbeing needs of the most vulnerable children in society. It is an organisation reflection drawing on early research in children’s social care from its archive.
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Stewart, Miriam, Kaysi Eastlick Kushner, CindyLee Dennis, Michael Kariwo, Nicole Letourneau, Knox Makumbe, Edward Makwarimba, and Edward Shizha. "Social support needs of Sudanese and Zimbabwean refugee new parents in Canada." International Journal of Migration, Health and Social Care 13, no. 2 (June 12, 2017): 234–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/ijmhsc-07-2014-0028.
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine support needs of African refugee new parents in Canada, and identifies support preferences that may enhance the mental health of refugee parents and children. Design/methodology/approach In all, 72 refugee new parents from Zimbabwe (n=36) and Sudan (n=36) participated in individual interviews. All had a child aged four months to five years born in Canada. Refugee new parents completed standardized measures on social support resources and support seeking as a coping strategy. Four group interviews (n=30) with refugee new parents were subsequently conducted. In addition, two group interviews (n=30) were held with service providers and policy influencers. Findings Separated from their traditional family and cultural supports, refugee new parents reported isolation and loneliness. They lacked support during pregnancy, birth, and postpartum and had limited interactions with people from similar cultural backgrounds. Refugees required support to access services and overcome barriers such as language, complex systems, and limited financial resources. Support preferences included emotional and information support from peers from their cultural community and culturally sensitive service providers. Research limitations/implications Psychometric evaluation of the quantitative measures with the two specific populations included in this study had not been conducted, although these measures have been used with ethnically diverse populations by other researchers. Practical implications The study findings can inform culturally appropriate health professional practice, program and policy development. Originality/value The study bridges gaps in research examining support needs and support intervention preferences of African refugee new parents.
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Setiawan, Eko, R. Nunung Nurwati, and Nurliana Cipta Apsari. "Kesejahteraan Anak Adopsi Usia Prasekolah (3-5 Tahun)." PERSPEKTIF 10, no. 2 (July 8, 2021): 609–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.31289/perspektif.v10i2.4893.
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Child welfare is the responsibility of the family because the child is part of the family. However, in reality there are still many who neglect their children so that the children's welfare is threatened. Abandoned children need protection to ensure their survival. One of the efforts made in dealing with the problem of neglected children is through an institution-based child service program through child social service institutions. However, institution-based child services have not been optimal in realizing children's welfare. Thus, children who are in institution-based care need to be transferred to family-based care so that the child's welfare can be better. One of the permanent efforts to care for children is through adoption. The method used in this research is mixed methods research method. The design chosen in this study is Explanatory Sequential Mixed Methods, the researcher will measure the level of children's welfare with quantitative research first followed by qualitative research. The results of quantitative research regarding the welfare of preschool adopted children show that basically the welfare of adopted children is in the good category. The results of the qualitative research found that the background and reasons or motivation of adoptive parents to adopt an effect on the care of the adopted child so that the child's welfare can be better. Most adoptive parents do not yet have biological children, so the presence of adopted children is a complement to their long-awaited family. The opportunity they get for adoption makes them try to care for, nurture, and treat their adopted child very well. They always pay attention to children's physical development, children's psychological development, children's social development and children's cognitive development so that children's welfare can be achieved.
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Walls, Lori Jane, and Jacqueline Pei. "Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder service delivery: Exploring current systems of care from the caregivers’ perspective." International Journal of Alcohol and Drug Research 2, no. 3 (April 3, 2013): 87–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v2i3.75.
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Walls, L., & Pei, J. (2013). Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder service delivery: Exploring current systems of care from the caregivers’ perspective. The International Journal Of Alcohol And Drug Research, 2(3), 87-92. doi:10.7895/ijadr.v2i3.75 (http://dx.doi.org/10.7895/ijadr.v2i3.75)Aims: The goals of this study were to: (1) gain improved understanding of the needs of caregivers caring for individuals with FASD; (2) gain improved understanding of the experiences of these caregivers as they attempt to access and implement supports in daily functioning; and (3) gain improved understanding of caregivers’ perceptions of strengths and challenges in systems of care for individuals with FASD.Design: Information for this study was gathered using a phenomenological in-depth interviewing method, allowing the researchers to explore existing services, policies, and local knowledge from the perspective of the caregivers who were accessing services. Participants: A total of eight participants (N = 8) met the criteria for participation. Six of the participants in the study were adoptive parents and two were foster parents. Of the eight participants, seven were female and one was male. Three of the study participants resided in rural locations and five in urban centers. Findings: Results indicated that caregivers pass through four stages of caregiving, with each stage having a distinct primary need and requiring supports and services that best address that need. Three additional themes related to service delivery also emerged: caregiver considerations, program factors, and building on strengths. Conclusions: Study results emphasize the need for further research exploring the concept that caregivers experience specific caregiving stages, and that programming factors should align with caregivers’ needs in each of these stages. Participants’ narratives also suggest that the results of this study may be relevant beyond its regional specificity and limited sample size, and may in fact reflect the experiences of caregivers across jurisdictions.
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Gralton, Ernest. "Foetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) – its relevance to forensic adolescent services." Journal of Intellectual Disabilities and Offending Behaviour 5, no. 3 (September 8, 2014): 124–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jidob-10-2014-0015.
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Purpose – There needs to be an increased recognition of fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) in services that deal with young people with disruptive and offending behavior, not just those services that deal with adolescents with a recognized intellectual disability. The paper aims to discuss these issues. Design/methodology/approach – This is a general review of the current available evidence on FASD and how it is likely to predispose affected young people to have contact with secure mental health services and the criminal justice system. Findings – FASD is likely to have become a more common cause of intellectual disability and behavioral disturbance but the history of significant alcohol exposure in utero if often missed. There is evidence that the hyperactivity is less responsive to psychotropic medication and may represent a different condition to conventional ADHD. However the majority of those affected are in the low normal IQ range. Research limitations/implications – There is so far very limited research in what is likely to be a relatively common disorder with significant costs to criminal justice, mental healthcare and social services. Epidemiological information from the UK is lacking and urgently needed. Practical implications – Professionals who work with mentally disordered young people need to be more aware of FASD and its potential contribution to the problems and disabilities in their population. Social implications – Social workers, foster carers and adoptive parents need to be more aware of FASD and how it can contribute to the breakdown of social care. Originality/value – There is currently no other review of FASD and the implications for criminal justice, secure mental health and social care for young people.
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Soloveva, T. V., E. G. Pankova, and D. A. Bistyaikina. "OPPORTUNITIES OF THE SOCIAL PROTECTION SYSTEM TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE OF SUBSTITUTE FAMILIES IN THE REPUBLIC OF MORDOVIA: ANALYSIS OF THE RESEARCH RESULTS." KAZAN SOCIALLY-HUMANITARIAN BULLETIN 11, no. 3 (June 2020): 40–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.24153/2079-5912-2020-11-3-40-44.
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The article presents the results of a study of the possibilities of the social protection system to improve the quality of life of substitute families in the Republic of Mordovia. The authors conclude that a substitute family is not a legally defined term for any type of family that accepts a child (children) left without parental care. Social protection of a substitute family is a system of support provided by providing a set of social services to the family in order to preserve and strengthen the social, psychological and physical health of members of the foster family and prevent secondary abandonment of the child. Professional formation and support of substitute families is one of the most important stages in the work of specialists working with a child placed in a family and members of this family. The results of the research presented in the article suggest that in General, substitute parents in the Republic of Mordovia are satisfied with the socio-psychological and socio-legal knowledge obtained during the preparation and decision-making on the creation of a substitute family. Adaptation and upbringing of a foster child, the features of children who have a traumatic experience of breaking up with their biological parents and the features of their development in adolescence – are the topics that were most significant for the substitute parents. The authors observed that adoptive families are heterogeneous both in terms of social well-being in General, and by the presence and intensity of elements, and therefore family policies should focus not only on the institution of foster families in General, but to be differentiated in relation to different groups. The results obtained provide a scientific basis for such a differentiated policy, which corresponds to the principle of targeting, widely declared in social policy and social work.
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Shelton, Katherine H., Coralie Merchant, and Jane Lynch. "The Adopting Together Service: how innovative collaboration is meeting the needs of children in Wales waiting the longest to find a family." Adoption & Fostering 44, no. 2 (July 2020): 128–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0308575920920390.
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Significant concerns remain in many countries about the high numbers of children needing an adoptive placement relative to the low numbers of prospective adopters, the high level of long-term therapeutic support needs for many adopted children and their families, and whether there are appropriate services to meet them. There has been an increase in ‘priority’ children waiting over 12 months to find a family. These are often children aged four years and over, in care with siblings, with additional needs or developmental uncertainties and from minority ethnic backgrounds. The financial and emotional costs of long-term fostering when plans are changed are huge. This article describes a major development in child care practice in Wales that has occurred over the past two years. The Adopting Together Service (ATS) involves a unique, innovative and multi-layered collaboration between the voluntary adoption agencies (VAAs – non-governmental charities) and regional adoption teams (statutory agencies) to secure permanence for children who wait the longest to find families. It explains how the ATS has been developed and embedded, including an account of the referral process, the approach to recruitment, linking and matching, and therapeutic activity before, during and after placement. It also describes the process of securing sustainable social procurement under the guidance of the British Standard for Collaborative Working (ISO 44001; British Standard Institute, 2017), the creation of a Joint Relationship Management Plan between VAAs, and the implementation of service level agreements between the voluntary and statutory sectors. These developments are considered in the context of the Welsh Government’s implementation of the Well-being of Future Generations (Wales) Act 2015, which lays out collaborative expectations to the statutory sector as one of its sustainable development principles. The article concludes with an initial evaluation of progress, noting challenges to the service and the views of the social workers, foster carers and adoptive parents involved.
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Siregar, Yolanda Triana, and Meilanny Budiarti Santoso. "ADOPSI DALAM PERSPEKTIF PEKERJAAN SOSIAL." Kumawula: Jurnal Pengabdian Kepada Masyarakat 1, no. 3 (December 18, 2019): 202. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/kumawula.v1i3.22676.
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ABSTRAK Adopsi merupakan salah satu upaya yang dilakukan pasangan suami istri untuk dapat memiliki kehadiran sosok anak di keluarga mereka. Di Indonesia, proses pengajuan dan prosedur adopsi telah jelas diatur dalam beberapa undang-undang dan ketetapan pemerintah yang berlaku. Namun dalam pelaksanaannya, masih ada berbagai permasalahan adopsi yang terjadi di Indonesia, antara lain kurangnya pemahaman dan pengetahuan masyarakat akan adanya prosedur pelaksanaan adopsi yang sah secara hukum, tidak adanya data valid mengenai jumlah adopsi di Indonesia, dan masih terjadinya sengketa antara orang tua angkat dan orang tua kandung akibat prosedur adopsi yang dilakukan secara private adoption. Metode yang digunakan dalam penulisan artikel ini adalah dengan menggunakan metode studi literatur. Hasil dari kajian yang dilakukan adalah diperlukannya upaya peningkatan informasi mengenai adopsi kepada masyarakat melalui kemudahan aksesibilitas layanan adopsi di tiap otoritas lokal. Hal ini dapat dicapai melalui integrasi yang baik antara pemerintah, lembaga sosial anak, pengadilan, dan pekerja sosial. Selain itu, pelayanan adopsi yang diberikan harus dipastikan sampai pada tahap pengawasan, pendampingan, dan penguatan terhadap pengasuhan calon orang tua angkat untuk menjamin terpenuhinya kebutuhan dan kesejahteraan anak di masa mendatang. Kata Kunci: adopsi anak, pekerjaan sosial ABSTRACT Adoption is one of the efforts made by married couples to be able to have the presence of a child in their family. In Indonesia, the adoption procedures are clearly regulated in several laws and government regulations. But in its implementation, there are still various problems of adoption that occur, including a lack of knowledge in community regarding the legal adoption procedures, the absence of valid data of number adoptions in Indonesia, and the ongoing dispute between foster parents and biological parents due to adoption procedures carried out in private adoption. The method used in writing this article is a literature study method. The results of the study are the need for efforts to increase information on adoption to the community through the ease of accessibility of adoption services in each local authority. This can be achieved through good integration between the government, children's social institutions, courts, and social workers. In addition, the adoption services provided must be ensured to reach the stage of supervision, assistance, and strengthening of the care of prospective adoptive parents to ensure the fulfillment of the needs and welfare of children in the future. Keywords: child adoption, social work
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Whalen, Thomas, and Daniel Pollack. "Decision tools to benefit children needing adoption." Human Systems Management 26, no. 1 (March 20, 2007): 35–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/hsm-2007-26104.
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Millions of children worldwide need permanent families. But traditional paper based methods, disagreements between agencies, and excessive nationalistic restrictions keep many children apart from potential parents able and eager to nurture them. This paper focuses on the use of Weighted Ordered Weighted Averages and linear assignment programming for matching orphaned or abandoned children with adoptive families. Traditional paper based, one-child-at-a-time approaches are slow, and speed matters, because of the well documented harm done when children spend too much time waiting. Our focus is on simultaneous matching in which a pool of potential families is viewed as a resource to be used of the benefit for a pool of children in a global way rather than one at a time. A special case of the Weighted Ordered Weighted Average, designed to be transparent to social workers with little or no mathematical training or inclination, is used to aggregate criteria. The United States Department of Health and Human Services estimates that over 500,000 children are in foster care with 130,000 available for adoption [6]. In sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Caribbean, a joint report by the UN/AIDS/UNICEF/USAID estimates that in 2003 there were 143 million orphans [24]. Negative experiences with the foster care system also lead to more children available for adoption [8,10,15,16]. Furthermore, with the rapid increase in drug dependency, AIDS, child maltreatment, and homelessness, the number of children available for adoption increases concomitantly [1]. It is universally agreed that a more efficient and swifter system needs to be developed in order to place these children in permanent homes [2,14,17]. This paper focuses on the use of Weighted Ordered Weighted Averages [21] and linear assignment programming for matching orphaned or abandoned children with adoptive families. We begin by reviewing traditional paper based, one-child-at-a-time approaches using unaided human judgment or human judgment aided by semi-automated systems for preliminary screening and short-listing. The primary focus is on simultaneous matching in which a pool of potential families is viewed as a resource to be used for the benefit of a pool of children in a global way rather than one at a time. A special case of the Weighted Ordered Weighted Average, designed to be transparent to social workers with little or no mathematical training or inclination, is used to aggregate criteria.
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Gudžinskienė, Vida, Rita Raudeliūnaitė, and Rokas Uscila. "The Experiences of Social Workers while Preparing Children for Independent Living in the Community Foster Care Homes." Pedagogika 125, no. 1 (April 13, 2017): 158–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/p.2017.12.
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The order of the Minister Social Security and Labour of December 18, 2013 adopted The Action Plan for the Transition from Institutional Care to the Family and Community Based Services to the Children with Disabilities and the Children who Have Lost Parental Care for 2014–2020. The purpose of the transition of residential institutions for children from institutional care to family and community-based provision of the services to the children, who have lost parental care, is to ensure a harmonious environment and conditions to the children, who have lost parental care, to grow in the family or household of guardians or adoptive parents and receive assistance in the community. It is important for a child to grow in a family environment which stimulates children’s independence, full and complete participation in the community and social inclusion. When restructuring children’s care homes, it is foreseen to create new and expand the existing community services which are alternative to institutional care: communal children’s care homes of up to 8 children when they are given residence in flats, houses. One of the priorities of the restructuring of children care is to prepare a child for an independent life. While the process of restructuring is underway' no studies', which analyze the improvement of the preparation of children, who reside in the community foster care homes, have been conducted. Therefore, it is relevant to conduct studies on the improvement of the development of independent life skills of children in the context of the restructuring of care homes.
The purpose of the study is to reveal the experiences of social workers while educating children for independent living in the community foster care homes.
The study questions: 1) What independent living skills children lack while living in the community foster care homes? 2) What difficulties are encountered by social workers while developing the independence of the children of the community foster care homes? 3) How social workers overcome arising difficulties?
Qualitative research type was chosen for the study. In the study, the method of a semi-structured interview, which enables to come close to the understanding of human experiences, designation of meanings, the definition of meanings and the construction (explanation) of reality, was used. The obtained data were analyzed by the content analysis method. Qualitative content analysis was carried out in accordance with the inductive, study data based and categories composed logic. According to J. W. Creswell (2009), content analysis is a technique which, having examined the specificities of the text, allows, objectively and systematically, draw reliable conclusions. The qualitative content analysis was performed regarding the following sequence (Creswell, 2009): repeated reading of the content of transcript interview texts, distinction of meaning elements in the text analysed, grouping of the distinguished meaning elements into categories and sub-categories, integration of the categories/sub-categories into the context of the phenomenon analysed and description of their analysis.
Criteria-based sample was used in the study. The informants were chosen according to the following criteria: 1) social workers who have a degree in social work, 2) social workers who work in the community foster care homes for children.
The study was conducted in the September-October of 2016 in the community foster care homes for children. 10 social workers participated in the study.
The study revealed that while preparing the children of the community foster care homes for independent living social workers experience the difficulties in (self-) developing domestic skills (food cooking, shopping, paying bills), social skills (communication and cooperation, organizational) and personal skills (the lack of adequate self-evaluation, self-control skills and self-confidence skills). Social workers, who work in the community foster care homes for children, develop independence skills in children by using verbal methods (individual and group conversations), assigning individual and group practical tasks, drawing on the team of the community foster care homes for children and cooperating with the specialists of other institutions. Social workers hope that the restructuring of institutional care and the changes related to it like creation of domestic environment and the possibilities for household management create better prerequisites for the preparation of children for independent living.
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"ADOLESCENTS SEXUAL REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH RIGHTS ISSUES IN RURAL ZIMBABWE." International Journal of Applied Research on Public Health Management 7, no. 1 (January 2022): 0. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijarphm.2022010102.
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This study was aimed at examining the knowledge and perceptions of adolescents on Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health (ASRH) rural Zimbabwe. Adolescents in Zimbabwe faces limited access to health information and services. Different factors like poverty, gender inequality, socio-cultural and economic status play a crucial role in determining adolescent’s access to ASRH knowledge. Qualitative research methodology was used in the study. Data was gathered through key informant interviews and Focus Group Discussions (FGDs). The culture of communicating ASRH problems with parents was non-existent in most cases save for girls who indicated that they got information from their mothers during menstruation periods. Adolescents indicated that they had limited access to ASRH services available in their community. They further indicated that they were not utilising these services for various reasons such as social stigma, lack of information, poor quality service and the negative attitude displayed by some nurses and counsellors at the nearest health centre.
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Hackenburg, Lucas, Toni Morgan, and Eve Brank. "“Born Under My Heart”: Adoptive Parents' Use of Metaphors to Make Sense of Their Past, Present, and Future." Family Journal, July 19, 2021, 106648072110273. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10664807211027310.
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Metaphors provide the opportunity to make sense of our experiences and share them with others. The current research qualitatively examined interviews with adoptive parents who had adopted through intercountry or private adoptions. Throughout their interviews, each participant used at least one metaphor in describing their experiences of adopting and raising their child. Overarchingly, the metaphor of “Adoption is a journey” encapsulated parents’ experiences. To demonstrate the journey, parents used metaphors to describe the past, present, and future. Metaphors of the past focused on their child's trauma and the origin of how the child came to join their family. Metaphors used to describe the present were challenge metaphors, including child's behaviors and finding support, coping metaphors, and balance metaphors. Lastly, metaphors of the future included guiding and commitment metaphors. In addition to metaphors, parents used symbolic rituals to connect their children with their past and current family. From metaphors, we offer several practical implications for postadoption intervention. First, interventions should be developed to meet participants where they are. Second, interventions should focus on the overall picture of adoption, as parents make sense of their past experiences and their ideals about the future. Lastly, services should focus on tools, not fixes.
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Langley, Audra K., Matthew A. Ruderman, Jill Waterman, and Todd Franke. "Impact of COVID-19 on resource families: Unique challenges and strengths." Developmental Child Welfare, July 5, 2021, 251610322110207. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/25161032211020756.
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The emergence of COVID-19 forced significant adaptations for families worldwide. Children and youth in foster care and their caregivers or resource parents experience unique stressors. The current study aimed to understand the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and “Safer-at-Home” orders on resource parents in Los Angeles County. Resource parents (n = 648) were surveyed about COVID-19 concerns, positive impact and strengths, access to and helpfulness of provided resources, visits with birth parents, children joining their families during the pandemic, and transition to telehealth. Between one-third and half of resource parents with foster or foster-adoptive children in their home reported significant anxiety about issues such as getting infected, uncertainty about the future, and financial hardship. In contrast, most resource parents reported some perceived benefits, such as increased family closeness. The most helpful resource reported was video visitation by social workers. A quarter of resource parents experienced in-person birth parent visits. Developmentally, parents with a foster or fosteradoptive child 0–5 years old reported significantly more worries related to COVID-19, while those with children of multiple ages reported feeling less valued as a resource parent and expressed more concerns about children falling behind with school, mental health and developmental services, birth parent visits, and delayed reunification. Lastly, younger parental age, fewer foster children in the home, and the less negative impact from COVID-19 a resource parent reported having were associated with an increased likelihood of resource parents welcoming a child into their home. Implications for policy and recommendations for practice are discussed.
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Bongo, Pathias P., Gladys Dziruni, and Chipo Muzenda-Mudavanhu. "The effectiveness of community-based rehabilitation as a strategy for improving quality of life and disaster resilience for children with disability in rural Zimbabwe." Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies 10, no. 1 (April 17, 2018). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v10i1.442.
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The study aimed to investigate the effectiveness of the community-based rehabilitation (CBR) project in Ward 20 of Chipinge in Zimbabwe and ascertain the positive district changes in the quality of life and disaster resilience of children with disability. Effectiveness involved examining the role of the parents of children with disabilities and the general community in the CBR programme, the extent to which children living with disabilities (CWDs) have been empowered to live quality life and access basic social services and evaluate whether local resources and capacities were being utilised. Data were collected through key informant interviews, document analysis and focus group discussions. The CBR model borrows heavily from rights-based approaches to development. Its practical application is problematic because of difficulties in defining issues such as participation and the ability of developing and poor communities to generate resources for these programmes. The study found that factors that hinder the effectives of CBR programmes included continuous dependence on donor funding, lack of political will by government and local authorities to commit financial resources towards CBR implementation and unreliable referral systems for access of services for children with disability. Gaps identified include establishing appropriate context-specific strategies that suit developing countries. The government and local authorities should prioritise resource allocation for marginalised groups such as people with disabilities. Civil society should not be the major and only source of funding for CBR. Extensive consultations should be made to adapt the CBR model to the socio-economic context of developing countries. The referral system for access to services for CWDs should be strengthened.
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Sibanda, Lwazi, and Joyce Mathwasa. "PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHERS AND LEARNERS ON THE IMPACT OF COVID-19 PANDEMIC LOCKDOWN ON RURAL SECONDARY SCHOOL FEMALE LEARNERS IN MATOBO DISTRICT, ZIMBABWE." European Journal of Social Sciences Studies 6, no. 3 (March 24, 2021). http://dx.doi.org/10.46827/ejsss.v6i3.1029.
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The purpose of the study was to examine the perceptions of teachers and learners on the impact of COVID-19 pandemic lockdown on rural secondary school female learners in Matobo District. The study was qualitative in nature, entrenched on interpretivist paradigm and adopted a case study design. Data was collected using open-ended questionnaire and online focus group discussions from six teachers and eighteen learners who formed three focus group discussions. The participants were purposively sampled from three schools. The study found that a few teachers were able to conduct online lessons using WhatsApp platform during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown in the selected schools though there was no consistence as teaching was not programmed and participation of female learners was low. The findings revealed that most of the parents could not afford to provide online learning resources for their children because of economic hardships. The study further established that rural female learners were at risk during COVID-19 pandemic lockdown as some of them were exposed to sexual abuse when they try to have access to smartphones and data bundles from some male adults. It was found that female learners have lost much of their learning time whilst on lockdown and many cases of pregnancy have emerged leading to dropping out of school. The study concluded that most of the rural secondary school female learners were excluded from education during lockdown due to poverty, unavailability of network or poor network coverage, lack of broadcast transmission services to enable them to access online lessons through the radio, lack of electricity, poor attendance due to lack of smartphones and data bundles, performance of all household chores including herding of cattle and lack of cooperation from some parents. The study recommended that the Ministry of Primary and Secondary Education should collaborate with stakeholders to provide necessary resources to enable all learners to access online learning despite geographical location.
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