Sibling separation and birth family reunion in adoption: perspectives of social workers and adoptees
This doctorate includes a systematic review of thirteen studies on adult adoptees’ reunions and an interview study of social workers’ sibling-placement decisions using interpretative phenomenological analysis. The review examined relationships, reunion impacts and facilitating or obstructing factors. The empirical analysis identified themes about decision-making and the role of workers’ beliefs and experiences.
Limitations: The review synthesises existing adoptee evidence; the new empirical evidence comes from social workers, not adoptees. The abstract does not specify interview sample size, recruitment region or the content of all themes. Findings should not be interpreted as evidence that separating siblings improves outcomes.
- Research type
- Doctoral thesis; systematic review and qualitative study
- Source reviewed
- Abstract
- Peer reviewed
- No
- Age group
- Mixed
Study context and review
Age group as recorded: Mixed
Adoption context: Adoption from care
Programme: Fallon sibling placement and reunion doctoral research
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: Decision-making, reunion, search, siblings, systematic review
Review scope: Source checked: Abstract. This does not imply full-text or independent human verification.
Country as recorded: UK research context; empirical recruitment region unverified
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