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Enhancing adoptive parenting

Tue, 24 March 2009

It is now recognised that many families adopting older children from care need professional help to deal with the more severe behavioural and emotional problems of children. However, concerns have been raised by adoptive parents, professionals and researchers about inadequate provision and unevenly spread post-adoption services.

A relatively modest financial investment in post-adoption support enhances parenting. This was one of the conclusions of Enhancing adoptive parenting: a randomised controlled trial of adoption support by Professor Alan Rushton, Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London and Dr Elizabeth Monck, Thomas Coram Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London. The study was funded by Nuffield and the Department of Health.

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Last Updated Tue, 24 March 2009