Teaching Medical Students About Adoption and Foster Care

Henry, Martha; Pollack, Daniel; Lazare, Aaron

doi:10.1300/j145v10n01_03

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“…Volume 44, Issue 1, April 2013 those providing the day-to-day care to vulnerable populations (Golding, 2010;Henry, Pollack, & Lazare, 2006). To do this, nurses need an awareness of the health risks specifi c to both the vulnerable populations and their carers.…”

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“…protection, there remain signifi cant bureaucratic differences between jurisdictions. Nurses, as well as other health care professionals, need a clear understanding of the child protection system if they are to effectively fulfi l their professional responsibilities in this regard (Henry et al, 2006;Land & Barclay, 2008). Continuing education programmes are warranted to keep health care professionals appropriately informed of their own responsibilities as well as the policies and legislations governing foster carers (Rowse, 2009).…”

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Caring for vulnerable children: Challenges of mothering in the Australian foster care system

Blythe

Halcomb²,

Wilkes³

et al. 2013

Contemporary Nurse

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Foster carers have a significant responsibility in caring for vulnerable children. In order to support and facilitate foster carers it is important to understand how they perceive and fulfil this responsibility. A qualitative story-telling study, informed by feminist perspectives, was used to conduct in-depth, semi-structured interviews with 20 women providing long-term foster care in Australia. Thematic analysis revealed these women characterised themselves as mothers, rather than paid carers, to the long-term foster children in their care. Using this maternal self-perception as the starting point, this paper reveals some of the challenges and difficulties participants encountered when mothering within the confines of the child protection system. Implications for nursing practice are discussed. These implications focus on ways that nurses can effectively support foster carers, thus optimising the health and well-being of the vulnerable children in their care.

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Caring for vulnerable children: Challenges of mothering in the Australian foster care system

Blythe

Halcomb²,

Wilkes³

et al. 2013

Contemporary Nurse

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“…Despite adoption's profound implications for psychological and medical health as well as reproductive decision-making, clinicians and researchers generally lack basic knowledge about adoption issues (Brodzinsky, 2013; Perry & Henry, 2010). Mental health practitioners, physicians, and nurses report receiving virtually no professional training on adoption (Brodzinsky, 2013; Foli et al, 2014; Henderson, 2002; Henry et al, 2006; Post, 2000; Wexler et al, 2022). In the absence of formal training, providers may instead rely on their personal experiences or dominant narratives about adoption.…”

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“…Many adopted people have sparse knowledge of their prenatal, birth, and early-life history as well as limited family medical history, underscoring the need for adoption-competent medical providers ready to address how this may affect adopted individuals’ medical care (May et al, 2018). With little training and awareness of the psychosocial and medical complexities of adoption, clinicians often fail to recognize that their adopted patients may face health risks due to missing, fragmented or untranslated health history in their adoption records (Foli et al, 2014; Henry et al, 2006; May et al, 2016; Schulte et al, 2002). Not knowing their family health history or potential exposures during pregnancy or early childhood may delay diagnosis and treatment for adopted individuals, as well as hinder optimal treatment selection (Rothfeld, 2022).…”

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Understanding Adoption as a Reproductive Justice Issue

Wexler

Cai

McKee

et al. 2023

Psychology of Women Quarterly

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Adoption is frequently invoked as a universal social good—an uncomplicated win for adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents alike—that obviates the need for abortion. As antiabortionists weaponize adoption to attack reproductive rights, psychologists must recognize adoption as a key reproductive justice issue with significant, lifelong physical and psychological impacts, especially on adopted people and birth parents. Recognizing critical adoption studies as an application of a reproductive justice framework, we argue that psychologists must understand how adoption is both sustained by and reinforces structural inequality and global reproductive injustice. In a post- Roe reality, clinicians and researchers must critically examine adoption histories and myths in order to address the needs of the adoption triad. As an interdisciplinary team of researchers and clinicians in psychology; medicine; genetic counseling; and women's, gender, sexuality, and Asian American studies, we examine adoption's ties to settler colonialism, racism, classism, and imperialism and interrogate harmful dominant narratives about adoption. We then summarize clinical considerations for working with members of the adoption triad, future directions for research on adoption, and recommendations for both clinicians and researchers to advance adoption competence in the face of current attacks on reproductive rights in the United States.

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“…Training programs have demonstrated success in educating a variety of human service professionals on adoption and unintended pregnancy, such as medical students (Henry, Pollack, & Lazare, 2007) and clergy, teachers, school administrators, or pregnancy counselors (Adlard, 1999). Henry et al (2007) evaluated a training program that was designed to promote best medical practices by teaching medical students about how adoption impacts their patients' lives. Findings from the pre-test/post-test design indicated that the training supported medical students in learning about the prevalence of adoption and in distilling common adoption myths.…”

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Evaluation of the Infant Adoption Awareness Trainings: Transforming Training Knowledge to Adoption Practice

Gallagher

Rycraft

2014

Adoption Quarterly

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Mixed methods were used to evaluate the effectiveness of the infant adoption awareness trainings. Quantitative data were collected through a pre-test/post-test design (n = 2797) that measured trainees' level of knowledge gained from the trainings. Qualitative data were collected through a follow-up survey (n = 304) and telephone interviews (n = 82) with trainees to assess whether the learning that occurred at the trainings has been applied to adoption-related practices. Findings suggest that trainees felt more comfortable discussing adoption as an option and were better prepared to use correct adoption terminology. Implications for practice, policy advocacy, and future research are discussed.

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Teaching Medical Students About Adoption and Foster Care

Cited by 9 publications

References 10 publications

Caring for vulnerable children: Challenges of mothering in the Australian foster care system

Caring for vulnerable children: Challenges of mothering in the Australian foster care system

Understanding Adoption as a Reproductive Justice Issue

Evaluation of the Infant Adoption Awareness Trainings: Transforming Training Knowledge to Adoption Practice

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