Mediation and Post-Adoption Contact: The Early Experience of the Post-Adoption Centre Contact Mediation Service
A small evaluation examined the first two years of the Post-Adoption Centre’s contact-mediation service. Researchers studied service outcomes and parents’ experiences of negotiating contact between adoptive and birth families. The abstract describes the evaluation but does not state specific outcome findings.
Limitations: Small early service evaluation; no causal effectiveness claim or direct child evidence is established. Historical law discussed in the paper should not be read as current guidance. Only the publisher-deposited abstract was reviewed; regional coverage and additional methods are not inferred where unstated. UK research context does not confirm an exclusively England/Wales sample. This evaluates the Post-Adoption Centre Contact Mediation Service. Service-based recruitment and the provider context should be considered.
- Research type
- Service evaluation
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- Yes
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: mixed
Adoption context: Domestic adoption / adoption from care
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: Adoption-sector service evaluation
This evaluates the Post-Adoption Centre Contact Mediation Service. Service-based recruitment and the provider context should be considered.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: adopter perspectives, contact, mediation, service evaluation
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: United Kingdom research context (sample geography not specified in abstract)
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- Adoptee involvement
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