TESSA families study: report of pilot evaluation
A pilot evaluation involving 20 adopters examined TESSA support through interviews and questionnaires. Its child-outcome component compared parents’ ratings before and after support and found a decrease in total child difficulties. The report also examined how the service operated during the pandemic.
Limitations: Small voluntary sample and incomplete paired child data, without an untreated comparison group. Parents rated children’s difficulties; these are proxy outcomes, not children’s own accounts. Pilot results combine Wales and Scotland; England’s service had not started early enough to join this evaluation. Parent-experience material is not the basis for inclusion. University researchers evaluated TESSA, developed and delivered by Adoption UK, an adoption-sector advocacy and service organisation.
- Research type
- Mixed-methods pilot service evaluation
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: mixed
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: TESSA service evaluations
Institutional context: Adoption-sector advocacy/service organisation
University researchers evaluated TESSA, developed and delivered by Adoption UK, an adoption-sector advocacy and service organisation.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: mental health, post-adoption support
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: Wales; Scotland
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- Commissioner
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- Funder role
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- Adoptee involvement
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