Healing Special Needs Adoptive Families With Forgiveness

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thomas W. Baskin ◽  
Margaret Rhody ◽  
Paula Plasky
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Adoptive Families

Parent, Child, and Adoption Characteristics Associated with Post-Adoption Support Needs

2020 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-32 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bethany R Lee ◽  
Adeline Wyman Battalen ◽  
David M Brodzinsky ◽  
Abbie E Goldberg
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Parent Education ◽  
Latent Class ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression ◽  
Support Needs ◽  
Multinomial Logistic Regression Model ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Targeted Interventions ◽  
Using Data ◽  
Best Fit

Abstract The purpose of this study is to (a) identify whether there are meaningful subgroups of families with distinct post-adoption needs and (b) determine which parent, youth, and adoption characteristics are associated with these collections of needs. Using data from the Modern Adoptive Families study, authors conducted a three-step latent class analysis with a sample of 1,414 families who rated the importance of 16 areas of parent education and support, based on their current level of need. A five-class solution best fit the data. Descriptively, the classes reflect families with low needs, families with needs related to adoption adjustment, families with adoption-specific needs, families wanting support specific to their youths’ special needs, and families with needs that are both adoption-specific and related to youth special needs. Results from the multinomial logistic regression model found class membership differences based on parent, youth, and adoption characteristics. These classes may help adoption professionals to recognize the types of post-adoption services different families may need and to develop targeted interventions for specific types of families.

Clinical and Nonclinical Adoptive Families of Special-Needs Children

1994 ◽  
Vol 75 (2) ◽  
pp. 90-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Groze
Keyword(s):  
Special Needs ◽  
Family System ◽  
System Model ◽  
Special Needs Children ◽  
Adoptive Families ◽  
Crisis Theory ◽  
Matched Samples

The author applies a resource and stressor family system model developed from crisis theory to adoptive families. Matched samples of clinical and nonclinical families were used to examine resources and stressors in adoptive families. Results indicate modest support for the hypothesis that adoptive families in crisis have more stressors than do adoptive families who are not in crisis. Implications for practice are discussed.

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