Add to ORKGFinding families for children whose care plan is adoption and deciding whether a child should be placed with a particular family – or matching – are major social work responsibilities. However, there is little research information on what contributes to good family finding and matching or how this relates to adoptive placement outcomes. This study aimed to begin to fill this gap in our knowledge
Background of the Study. The placement of an infant in an adoptive home is perhaps the most optimist...
Virtually nothing is known about the characteristics used to select foster families. This study exam...
Matching in family foster care is a form of complex decision-making influenced by more than case fac...
The objective of this study, based on 149 children who had an adoption recommendation at panel and c...
This study compared the effectiveness and outcomes of different family finding methods in adoption i...
Placing children, many of whom have complex needs, with an unrelated adoptive family is one of the m...
Children who are in need of a foster family placement present very different needs and profiles in t...
The decision to place together foster families and children in care is thought to be a pivotal momen...
There are an increasing number of families who are adopting special needs children. Research has sho...
Ideally, the adopted child should be placed with parents and in a home that offers a reasonable guar...
It is widely accepted that the processing of identity issues can be problematic for some adopted chi...
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Jonson-Reid his project was designed to analyze the problem of foster care c...
Despite the potential influence of matching decisions on the course of a placement, matching remains...
Each year, nearly 250,000 children are removed from the custody of their parents due to abuse or neg...
In order to make adoption a true success story for adoptive parents and their children the number of...
Background of the Study. The placement of an infant in an adoptive home is perhaps the most optimist...
Virtually nothing is known about the characteristics used to select foster families. This study exam...
Matching in family foster care is a form of complex decision-making influenced by more than case fac...
The objective of this study, based on 149 children who had an adoption recommendation at panel and c...
This study compared the effectiveness and outcomes of different family finding methods in adoption i...
Placing children, many of whom have complex needs, with an unrelated adoptive family is one of the m...
Children who are in need of a foster family placement present very different needs and profiles in t...
The decision to place together foster families and children in care is thought to be a pivotal momen...
There are an increasing number of families who are adopting special needs children. Research has sho...
Ideally, the adopted child should be placed with parents and in a home that offers a reasonable guar...
It is widely accepted that the processing of identity issues can be problematic for some adopted chi...
Faculty Mentor: Melissa Jonson-Reid his project was designed to analyze the problem of foster care c...
Despite the potential influence of matching decisions on the course of a placement, matching remains...
Each year, nearly 250,000 children are removed from the custody of their parents due to abuse or neg...
In order to make adoption a true success story for adoptive parents and their children the number of...
Background of the Study. The placement of an infant in an adoptive home is perhaps the most optimist...
Virtually nothing is known about the characteristics used to select foster families. This study exam...
Matching in family foster care is a form of complex decision-making influenced by more than case fac...