Post‐adoption reunion sibling relationships: factors facilitating and hindering the development of sensitive relationships following reunion in adulthood

O’Neill, Denise; McAuley, Colette; Loughran, Hilda

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“…En primer lugar, en cuanto a las características de los usuarios que demandan atención a los servicios posadopción, cabe destacar que las dos terceras partes son mujeres. Este dato también es compartido con otros países, donde las mujeres adoptadas tienden a demandar más ayuda o atención que los hombres, sobre todo en relación con la búsqueda de orígenes (Curtis & Pearson, 2010;O'Neill et al, 2016). Este dato no debería interpretarse, obligatoriamente, como que las mujeres estén encontrando mayores dificultades a lo largo de su vida.…”

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“…El contacto con sus hermanos biológicos puede ser una experiencia positiva y valiosa que contribuye a su crecimiento personal proporcionándole, en ocasiones, información sobre su familia biológica o compartiendo información acerca de ella, en caso de que ambos hermanos hayan sido adoptados (O'Neill et al, 2016). En los programas de formación para solicitantes de adopción se forma a los futuros padres en la necesidad de que, en caso de que los hermanos estén adoptados por distintas familias, se intente mantener el contacto entre ellos (León et al, 2010); igualmente, en la valoración de su idoneidad pueden mostrar su disposición al contacto con las familias que adopten a los hermanos de sus hijos.…”

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“…Conocer o contactar con miembros de la familia biológica es una de las necesidades principales y más frecuentes entre los usuarios de los servicios posadopción (Curtis & Pearson, 2010;Docan-Morgan, 2016;Greenhow et al, 2016;Harris, 2014b;O'Neill et al, 2016;Rosset et al, 2013). El motivo principal es la inquietud por saber, una búsqueda, a veces solo interna, para llenar lagunas de información sobre sus vidas.…”

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Análisis descriptivo de los servicios posadopción a personas adultas en España

Jiménez-Luque,

Sánchez-Sandoval

2024

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La adopción es una medida de protección infantil que permite un cambio positivo en la vida de niños, niñas o adolescentes y posibilita la creación de una nueva familia. Los procesos de adopción implican intervenciones profesionales de calidad durante años. Este trabajo analiza servicios posadopción en España que ofrecen atención a personas adultas adoptadas. Se pretende conocer las características sociodemográficas de los usuarios, las demandas que plantean y las respuestas ofrecidas desde estos servicios. Participan 38 servicios profesionales con competencia en adopción en España que cumplimentaron un cuestionario estructurado sobre información relativa al servicio. Los resultados muestran una mayor proporción de mujeres demandantes de servicios posadopción (63.42%). El 24.18% fueron usuarios adoptados internacionalmente. La mayor demanda atendida es la solicitud de información sobre su familia biológica (al menos 65.79%). Desde los servicios ofrecen respuestas de asesoramiento relacionado con la adopción (84.8%), búsqueda de orígenes (84.8%) y terapia psicológica (63.6%), además de otros recursos no específicos para adultos adoptados. Las nuevas necesidades planteadas por adultos adoptados requieren conocer y fortalecer los servicios posadopción orientados a estos usuarios, insistiendo en el trabajo en red de la adopción y en mejorar las competencias en adopción de los profesionales.

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Análisis descriptivo de los servicios posadopción a personas adultas en España

Jiménez-Luque,

Sánchez-Sandoval

2024

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“…The importance of maintaining post-adoption contact between adopted children, particularly those placed at an older age, and their birth families is now increasingly accepted in social work practice in the West (O’Neill, McAuley and Loughran, 2016). In Western countries, open adoptions have encouraged the process of search and reunion, and post-adoption contact with birth relatives has been made either directly (face to face) or indirectly (‘letterbox contact’), typically mediated by an adoption agency.…”

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Mapping the digitalisation of child adoption in India: Challenges and future possibilities

Mitra,

Bhaskar,

Bode

2023

Adoption & Fostering

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Among several other countries, India has launched numerous digital initiative programmes aimed at integrating and upgrading various socioeconomic, political and health and social care arenas. One such area is child adoption, where a move away from the analogue system and towards digitalisation began in 2015. The Indian Ministry of Women & Child Development introduced the Child Adoption Resource Information and Guidance System (CARINGS), a digital adoption formalisation platform, under the Central Adoption Resource Authority, a nodal body that monitors and regulates both in-country and intercountry adoptions. This government initiative centralised adoption data from all over India, including the number of children declared free for adoption and the number of prospective parents registered and seeking to adopt. Against this context, this study aims to map the development of adoption in India through digital systems and the influence of digitilisation on those involved in the pre- and post-adoption phases. Drawing on both Western and Indian literature, as well as observations from an ongoing qualitative study on adoption digitalisation in India, this study discusses the benefits and limitations of digital systems for the people connected to them. The findings provide a comprehensive view of the interaction of technology and society and how this operates in the sociocultural context of adoption in India. Future implications for researchers and adoption social workers and consultants are discussed.

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“…Services most often requested by adoptive parents include concrete support and increased social support (Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute 2004). One study also found addressing marital stress of adoptive parents through participation in marriage enrichment events that successfully strengthened support networks, also reduced stress and increased feelings of competence in their parenting (O'Neill et al 2014).…”

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Improving Access to Trauma-Informed Adoption Services: Applying a Developmental Trauma Framework

Hartinger-Saunders

Jones

Rittner

2016

Journ Child Adol Trauma

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Foster and adopted children often experience multiple traumatic and adverse experiences. A growing body of literature indicates the negative impact of trauma on developmental milestones and brain development, which supports the need to address complex trauma among this vulnerable population of foster and adopted youth. This paper presents an overview of the unique needs of children adopted from the foster care system from the perspective of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs), complex trauma, and developmental trauma disorder (DTD). There is an increasing number of evidence-based trauma-focused services and interventions for children and youth. However, many adoptive parents have limited trauma-informed training and limited access to trauma-informed and adoption-competent professionals, particularly long-term supports across developmental stages, making them ill-prepared to meet the needs of children in their care. This paper contributes to the understanding of how access to these trauma-focused services can be increased through new technologies, to better prepare and empower adoptive parents to deal effectively with difficult adoption issues when they arise and to improve outcomes for children and youth adopted from the public child welfare system. Several innovative approaches toward this end include harnessing technology to: (1) improve access to suitable adoption resources, (2) improve mechanisms to track critical events, behaviors, emotions, functional abilities, strengths, etc., in order to determine timely, on-demand contextual services, and (3) extend professional, supportive environments beyond the adoptive family context by proposing the use of technology to build interdisciplinary, virtual community partners.

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Post‐adoption reunion sibling relationships: factors facilitating and hindering the development of sensitive relationships following reunion in adulthood

Cited by 8 publications

References 18 publications

Análisis descriptivo de los servicios posadopción a personas adultas en España

Análisis descriptivo de los servicios posadopción a personas adultas en España

Mapping the digitalisation of child adoption in India: Challenges and future possibilities

Improving Access to Trauma-Informed Adoption Services: Applying a Developmental Trauma Framework

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