...Nikos Kourachanis Purpose This study aims to examine housing and child protection policies in Greece, focusing on the transition from institutional care to alternative models such as foster care, adoption and semi-independent living. Despite the enactment of Law 4538/2018, child protection...

... local volunteers in an evidence-based, trauma-informed caregiving model, Trust-Based Relational Intervention (TBRI), to provide education, support and TBRI training to caregivers who reunited or adopted children from institutional care in Rwanda. This study aims to describe the process of disseminating...

...Steve Farnfield Purpose The purpose of this paper was to determine the attachment strategies of prospective adoptive parents and any correlation between attachment and the defensive strategies they used when talking about loss of fertility. The study also examined whether attachment strategy...

...Tam Cane; Vasso Vydellingum; Wendy Knibb Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the experiences that people with HIV faced as they navigated through the intricate processes of trying to access adoption services in the south of England. It proposes the need to pay more attention to people...

... of reflective functioning has shown to be predictive of secure attachment relationships (Fonagy and Target, 1997). Adoption Attachment Intervention Behavior problems Sensitive parenting Social competence In the first volume of his well-known trilogy Attachment and Loss  Bowlby...

... permanency for children through adoption or guardianship and practice has moved in the direction of providing a range of supports to kin caregivers (Gleeson and Finney Hairston, 1999 ; Hegar and Scannapieco, 1999) to facilitate their continuing in this role outside the formal care system. Subsidized kinship...

...Elizabeth Monck; Alan Rushton The aim of the study described here was to assess the types of additional specialist service available to adoptive parents participating in a randomised controlled trial (RCT) of post‐adoption support whose ex‐care children were showing substantial psychosocial...