Knowing Me, Knowing You: Exploring the role of parental sensitivity and mentalization in relationships where adoptive children display aggression and violence and evaluating the impact of a parenting program to support these families.
This thesis included quantitative evaluation of a parenting programme involving 35 parents of 53 adopted children aged four to twelve. Measures examined child behaviour and relationships alongside parent variables over time. Some child-behaviour changes were reported, with some comparisons not statistically significant, and parent–child relationships improved.
Limitations: The included component concerns parent-reported child outcomes, not direct adoptee evidence. The thesis also contains qualitative parent-experience components, which are not the basis of this summary. The selected programme sample and uncontrolled changes do not establish causal treatment effects.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Barrow Knowing Me Knowing You programme evaluation
Institutional context: No relationship identified in the material checked
No adoption-sector organisational relationship identified from metadata reviewed. Funding and conflicts were not comprehensively audited; this is not confirmation of institutional independence.
Bibliographic screening. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: Child-to-parent violence, Parent proxy evidence, post-adoption support, Relationships, violence
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom
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