Mediation and Post-Adoption Contact: The Early Experience of the Post-Adoption Centre Contact Mediation Service

Kedward, Carol; Luckock, Barry; Lawson, Hilary

doi:10.1177/030857599902300304

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“…The attitude of adoption agencies can influence the subsequent attitudes of adoptive parents, with a combination of positive attitudes towards the birth family, educational input and emotional support producing adoptive parents who are more positive about contact and the birth family (Baumann, 1999;Silverstein and Kaplan Roszia, 1999). It is argued by Silverstein and Kaplan Roszia (1999) In a study of a contact mediation service in the UK (Kedward et al, 1999) it was found that a presumption by agencies in favour of contact was not by itself helpful or sufficient. Birth relatives and adopters also needed help to resolve conflicts and ambivalence at the beginning of the placement for contact plans to work smoothly in the long term.…”

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Contact after Adoption: The Role of Agencies in Making and Supporting Plans

Neil

2002

Adoption & Fostering

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Using questionnaire data about 168 young, recently adopted children and interview data about 36 children having face-to-face contact, Elsbeth Neil explores how agencies formulate and support post-adoption contact plans. It was found that while most children were planned to have some form of contact, adoption agencies differed in the extent to which this was promoted, especially face-to-face. Agencies seemed to play a leading role in determining whether or not face-to-face contact should occur, and what form it should take. However, for contact to be successful it was important that agencies did not just insist on contact, but that they helped adoptive parents to feel positive about it. There was evidence that some agencies that planned face-to-face contact remained ambivalent about its value, indicated by formal, low-frequency contact meetings that were controlled rather than supported. Such arrangements could convey negative messages about the importance of contact and the capacity of adopters and birth relatives to manage arrangements directly. A more successful model of agency involvement empowered adopters and birth relatives to find a plan that suited them, incorporated positive messages about contact and provided support where necessary.

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Contact after Adoption: The Role of Agencies in Making and Supporting Plans

Neil

2002

Adoption & Fostering

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“…Attitudes of adoption agency workers influence prospective adoptive parent attitudes about openness (Neil, 2002); however, favourable attitudes are not enough to help families navigate openness (Kedward, Luckock, & Lawson, 1999). The agency that developed this model is in the early stages of designing formative and summative evaluations.…”

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The inclusive family support model: Facilitating openness for post‐adoptive families

Kim

Tucker²

2019

Child & Family Social Work

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Open adoptions have increased over the past few decades, and although guidance for considering and creating open adoption agreements exist, one area of needed postadoption support is helping adoptive birth/first families navigate open-adoption relationships after finalization. Adoption agencies have a responsibility to assist adoptive parents, who may have fears and concerns about openness, see the potential benefits rather than only the challenges. This article describes a practice model designed by one agency to help families navigate post-adoption openness. The Inclusive Family Support model is conceptualized through the theoretical perspectives of family systems theory, ambiguous loss and disenfranchised grief, and the transtheoretical model of change. We highlight the major dimensions of the model, how it will be implemented and evaluated at one agency, and discuss implications for practice and policy.

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“…Kedward, Luckock y Lawson (1999) señalan que la mediación ayudará tanto a los padres biológicos como a los adoptivos a tomar decisiones conjuntas sobre la naturaleza y el alcance de los contactos posteriores a la adopción Para Ledesma (2013), el mediador debe ser el primer filtro en los procesos de contacto del adoptado con la familia biológica. En una primera fase, el mediador debe ayudar a valorar las motivaciones y expectativas del menor y su familia para iniciar este contacto.…”

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Retos y dificultades para la implantación de la adopción abierta en España. El papel de la mediación

Limiñana

Pedro-Viejo

2017

MESO

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Recibido: 12 de septiembre de 2017 / Aceptado: 23 de octubre de 2017 Resumen. Las últimas modificaciones producidas en la normativa española sobre protección a la infancia y la adolescencia incorporan la figura de la adopción abierta. Se trata de una medida innovadora ya que choca con la ruptura del vínculo entre el menor y su familia biológica que suponía hasta entonces la adopción y permite al adoptado mantener relación con su familia de origen a través de vistas o comunicaciones. Si bien la adopción abierta cuenta con una larga tradición en otros países, su implantación en España suscita importantes interrogantes. El objetivo de este trabajo es el estudio de las opiniones de expertos sobre las condiciones para su implantación en España mediante el análisis de contenido temático de las entrevistas realizadas. Del análisis se desprenden los retos y dificultades de su implantación y la importancia de recurrir a la mediación como estrategia para promover los contactos. Palabras clave: Adopción; adopción abierta; mediación; España; análisis de contenido.[en] Challenges and difficulties for the implementation of open adoption in Spain. The role of mediation Abstract. The latest changes made in the Spanish legislation on protection of children and adolescents incorporate the figure of open adoption. This is an innovative measure because it clashes with the obligation to break the link between the child and his biological family contemplated until then in the adoption and allows the adoptee to maintain relationship with his family of origin through views or communications. Although open adoption has a long tradition in other countries, its implementation in Spain raises important questions. The objective of this work is the study of expert opinions on the conditions for its implementation in Spain through the analysis of the thematic content of the interviews carried out. This analysis highlight the challenges and difficulties of its implementation, as well as the importance of mediation as a strategy for promoting contacts.

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Mediation and Post-Adoption Contact: The Early Experience of the Post-Adoption Centre Contact Mediation Service

Cited by 8 publications

References 4 publications

Contact after Adoption: The Role of Agencies in Making and Supporting Plans

Contact after Adoption: The Role of Agencies in Making and Supporting Plans

The inclusive family support model: Facilitating openness for post‐adoptive families

Retos y dificultades para la implantación de la adopción abierta en España. El papel de la mediación

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