It changed my life completely: user views and experiences of post-adoption services
This doctorate examined users’ experiences of West Midlands Post Adoption Service. Methods included enquiry records, support-group data, a postal survey, 41 user interviews, focus groups and work with an adopted child. Participants included adoptees and other people affected by adoption. Many reported difficulty finding appropriate help before reaching the service; most described benefits from its support and relationships with workers.
Limitations: One service and a selected group of its users. Findings combine adoptee and other service-user accounts; they are not exclusively adoptee testimony. Reported benefits are not a controlled test of effectiveness. This is the underlying project for related Harris journal papers, not an independent sample. The research was a collaboration between the University of Warwick and West Midlands Post Adoption Service, whose services were being evaluated. The service is listed as a sponsor of the doctorate. Readers may take this institutional relationship into account.
- Research type
- Mixed-methods doctoral service evaluation
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Mixed
Adoption context: Domestic / transracial adoption
Programme: Harris post-adoption service-user research
Institutional context: Adoption-sector service evaluation
The research was a collaboration between the University of Warwick and West Midlands Post Adoption Service, whose services were being evaluated. The service is listed as a sponsor of the doctorate. Readers may take this institutional relationship into account.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: Abuse in adoptive homes, adoptee voice, Disability, LGBTQ+, post-adoption support, service evaluation, transracial adoption
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England (West Midlands)
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Adoptee involvement
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