‘It’s about Gut Instinct’ & ‘Roller Coasters’: Reflexive Thematic Analysis of the Assessing Social Worker’s role in Adoption Matching beyond ‘box-ticking’
Four assessing social workers in one UK local authority were interviewed about adoption matching. Reflexive thematic analysis identified themes concerning use of self beyond written information, emotional tasks, and communication and joint thinking. The analysis describes how professionals understood their role and pressures.
Limitations: These are professional accounts, not adoptee testimony or evidence that particular matches produced better outcomes. Four workers from one authority limit generalisation; its region is not specified in the abstract.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Children / Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Children / adolescents
Adoption context: Mixed adoption pathways
Programme: Apostolidou adoption matching study
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: Adoption matching, adoption system, professional perspectives
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom (regional recruitment not established)
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- Adoptee involvement
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