Placement stability and permanency are key goals for children in foster and adoptive care.
This study is a systematic review of the scholarly literature to better understand caregiver …

RESUMO O objetivo foi mapear a literatura nacional e internacional sobre a devolução de
crianças adotadas. Para tanto, foi realizado um levantamento de artigos em cinco bases de …

Although parenting stress has been identified as one of the most important and highly
acceptable targets for postadoption psychological intervention, knowledge regarding the …

Adoption and guardianship are meant to provide permanency to foster children when
reunification is not a viable option. Unfortunately, sometimes adoption and guardianship …

The purpose of this study is to (a) identify whether there are meaningful subgroups of
families with distinct post-adoption needs and (b) determine which parent, youth, and …

Exiting and re-entering out-of-home care (OHC) is considered a disruption to permanence
which may have long-lasting, negative consequences for children due to a lack of stability …

This study explored data obtained from surveys of caregivers who had previously adopted or
assumed guardianship of a child from foster care in two US states (N= 937). Descriptive …

Evidence shows that adoption is primarily a beneficial measure to ensure relational
permanency for children who cannot return to their birth family. At the same time, it is one of …

Adoption can be an important protective factor for foster children; however, if adoptive
parents are not adequately prepared to deal with trauma-based difficulties, such children …

Abstracts Previous research has established that child sexual abuse (CSA) and other forms
of child maltreatment can have lasting and profound implications for survivors in terms of …