Post-adoption support and interventions for adoptive families: Best practice approaches
This review searched research databases and evidence registries for adoption support and interventions, including services and studies in England. It examined adopted children’s developmental needs and assessed the evidence behind therapeutic programmes. It found that intervention evidence varied and often depended on small evaluations or research with other populations.
Limitations: Rapid review restricted to English-language literature, mainly since 2000. International and non-adoption evidence is included and cannot automatically be applied to England/Wales adoptees. Some sections concern parents’ service experiences; inclusion here rests on child needs, child outcomes and service evidence. Commissioned by the German Research Center on Adoption at the German Youth Institute, within a federally funded adoption research project.
- Research type
- Commissioned rapid literature review
- Source reviewed
- Full text
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: mixed
Adoption context: Domestic adoption from care and intercountry adoption
Programme: Not recorded
Institutional context: Government / government-commissioned research
Commissioned by the German Research Center on Adoption at the German Youth Institute, within a federally funded adoption research project.
Relationship identified. Bibliographic relationships are not a bias or safety rating.
Topics: mental health, post-adoption support, research methodology
Review scope: Source checked: Full text. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: England; international evidence
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- Commissioner
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- Funder role
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- Declared conflicts
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- Recruitment
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- Adoptee involvement
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