Starting Secondary School: The Experiences of Adopted Young People and Their Parents
Three adopted Year 7 pupils and two adoptive parents were interviewed about starting secondary school. Older adopted pupils helped shape the research design. Interpretative phenomenological analysis identified themes concerning anxiety, managing oneself, attachment and adoptive identity. Accounts varied with individual experiences.
Limitations: Very small qualitative sample in mainstream schools. Themes combine young-person and parent accounts and are not exclusively adoptee testimony. The abstract does not specify recruitment location or demonstrate which school interventions improve outcomes. This is an examined professional doctorate, not a peer-reviewed journal paper.
- Research type
- Doctoral qualitative thesis
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Adolescents
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Adolescents
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: Fayers adopted pupils secondary-school transition 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: adoptee voice, education, identity, school transitions
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: UK; recruitment region not specified in abstract
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