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dc.contributor.authorHarlow, Elizabeth*
dc.date.accessioned2018-03-19T15:48:35Z
dc.date.available2018-03-19T15:48:35Z
dc.date.issued2018-05-16
dc.identifier.citationHarlow, E. (2018). Defining the Problem and Sourcing the Solution: a Reflection on Some of the Organizational, Professional and Emotional Complexities of Accessing Post-adoption Support. Journal of Social Work Practice, 33(3), 269-80.
dc.identifier.issn0265-0533
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/02650533.2018.1460588
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10034/620986
dc.descriptionThis is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Social Work Practice on 16/05/18, available online: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02650533.2018.1460588en
dc.descriptionContact details for Elizabeth Harlow (co-author): e.harlow@chester.ac.uk
dc.description.abstractIn the United Kingdom as elsewhere, children across the age range are now being adopted from care. Some of these children, by no means all, are expressing additional physical, emotional, behavioural and educational needs. In consequence, the government has introduced legislation and attendant policies aimed at providing adoptive families with support. In 2013 in the northwest of England, a specialist post-adoption support service was established, and an illuminative evaluation of its organization and provision was conducted. A key theme emerging from the qualitative data concerned the difficulties parents had encountered in accessing appropriate support prior to the creation of the service. These difficulties have been interpreted as: uncertainty in defining the problems encountered and knowing which agencies and professionals to approach; ambivalence about seeking help; professionals’ uncertainty in knowing how to respond; and the scarcity of resources. This paper illustrates these difficulties, then draws attention to some of the ways in which they are being addressed.
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherTaylor & Francisen
dc.relation.urlhttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02650533.2018.1460588en
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/en
dc.subjectAdoptive parentsen
dc.subjectAdoptionen
dc.subjectPost-adoption supporten
dc.subjectPsychosocial theoryen
dc.subjectQualitativeen
dc.subjectEvaluationen
dc.titleDefining the problem and sourcing the solution: a reflection on some of the organizational, professional and emotional complexities of accessing post-adoption support.en
dc.typeArticleen
dc.identifier.eissn1465-3885
dc.contributor.departmentUniversity of Chester
dc.identifier.journalJournal of Social Work Practice
dc.date.accepted2018-03-12
or.grant.openaccessYesen
rioxxterms.funderAdoption Mattersen
rioxxterms.identifier.projectHSC 13-169en
rioxxterms.versionAMen
rioxxterms.versionofrecordhttps://doi.org/10.1080/02650533.2018.1460588
rioxxterms.licenseref.startdate2019-05-16
html.description.abstractIn the United Kingdom as elsewhere, children across the age range are now being adopted from care. Some of these children, by no means all, are expressing additional physical, emotional, behavioural and educational needs. In consequence, the government has introduced legislation and attendant policies aimed at providing adoptive families with support. In 2013 in the northwest of England, a specialist post-adoption support service was established, and an illuminative evaluation of its organization and provision was conducted. A key theme emerging from the qualitative data concerned the difficulties parents had encountered in accessing appropriate support prior to the creation of the service. These difficulties have been interpreted as: uncertainty in defining the problems encountered and knowing which agencies and professionals to approach; ambivalence about seeking help; professionals’ uncertainty in knowing how to respond; and the scarcity of resources. This paper illustrates these difficulties, then draws attention to some of the ways in which they are being addressed.
rioxxterms.publicationdate2018-05-16


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