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Post-adoption services - the views of adopters
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 12(4), 1988, pp.24-28.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Reports on research which showed the need for post-adoption support and the lack of services.
Ethical issues in adoption
- Authors:
- FREUNDLICH Madelyn, PHILLIPS Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 24(4), Winter 2000, pp.7-17.
- Publisher:
- Sage
As part of its remit to critically evaluate adoption policy and practice, the Evan B Donaldson Adoption Institute, based in New York, recently held a major international conference on the role of ethics in adoption. This article reports on some of the conference discussions and debates around four key ethical issues in adoption: secrecy and openness; the role of race, culture and national origin; market forces; and the relationship between adoption and the emerging reproductive technologies. Parallels and differences are drawn between the United States and the UK, and questions are raised as to how ethical standards can be developed and monitored.
Empowering prospective adopters
- Authors:
- CLARK Irene, McWILLIAM Emma, PHILLIPS Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 22(2), Summer 1998, pp.35-43.
- Publisher:
- Sage
... to the adoption panel, key workers and a consultant on their experience of this process. Concludes that this model of assessment has the potential to enable prospective adopters to gain a more realistic understanding of the kind of children whose needs they could meet.
Adoption Law Review: Stepping in to a family
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 24.6.93, 1993, pp.6-7.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
Although a substantial area of work for adoption workers is with step-parent adoptions local authorities often do not give them much priority. The Adoption Law Review proposes a new adoption order which does not make the parent with whom the child is living an adoptive parent. Reports on research done by the author into the role of social work departments in step-parent adoptions.
The role of Social Work Departments in stepparent adoptions
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Adoption and Fostering, 16(2), 1992, pp.16-21.
- Publisher:
- Sage
Presents results from examining adoption reports submitted to courts and interviewing participants in the adoption process to find out social workers' perceptions of their role in stepparent adoptions and stepfamilies views of the service offered to them by social workers.
Support for openness in adoption placements - what can we learn from New Zealand?
- Author:
- PHILLIPS Rena
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Society, 9(3), October 1995, pp.65-68.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
This paper discusses the progress made in New Zealand towards open adoption. The practice of open adoption being where there is some form of continuing contact, including face to face contact, between birth and adoptive families. The views of social workers, birth and adoptive families on face to face contact are reported and arguments for and against post-adoption support for open adoption
Developing a post-adoptive service for adoptive families
- Authors:
- PHILLIPS Rena, McWILLIAM Emma
- Journal article citation:
- Practice: Social Work in Action, 7(3), 1995, pp.45-58.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
Adoption today is frequently used as a provision for older children, or children with special needs, who cannot live with their family of origin. Research indicates that adoptive families may need a wide range of services long after the adoption order has been granted. This ongoing support has resource implications for Local Authorities, and at present post adoption services are patchy and underdeveloped. Describes the various elements that make up a comprehensive post adoption service for adoptive families such as self-help networks, dissemination of information, counselling and therapeutic input, training programmes and practical help. Against a background of shortage of resources questions are raised about the future organisation of post adoption services.
After adoption: working with adoptive families
- Editors:
- PHILLIPS Rena, McWILLIAM Emma
- Publisher:
- British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering
- Publication year:
- 1996
- Pagination:
- 228p.,bibliogs.
- Place of publication:
- London
Papers on the development of post-adoption services for adoptive families, focusing in particular on the views and experiences of adoptive families. Includes chapters on: a model of assessment and matching; the use of adoption allowances of sustain adoption placements; education of adopted children; coping with trauma; attachment disordered children; adoption issues in adolescence; psychotherapy; behavioural and cognitive-behavioural approaches; art therapy; group play therapy; open adoption; black issues in post-adoption work (including transracial adoption); intercountry adoption; and training in post-placement support.