Dr. Elisha Marr & Dr. Emily Helder discuss research regarding religiosity and adoption. Dr. Marr outlines the findings from existing nationally representative datasets regarding the link between relig...
Marta Reinoso: International Adoption (Dubbed English) (00:42:40)
Dr. Marta Reinoso outlines trends in international adoption in Spain and globally. She then moves on to discuss the role of attachment and bonding within the family system following international adop...
Amy Whitesel: The Early Growth and Development Study (00:28:32)
Dr. Amy Whitesel describes the work that she and her colleagues in the Early Growth and Development Study have been conducting. The EGDS is a longitudinal study that includes birth/first families, ado...
Marta Santos Nunes: Parenting Stress in Adoptive Families (00:31:22)
Dr. Marta Santos Nunes describes the research on parenting stress among adoptive families. She identifies ways that parental factors, such as expectations and parental warmth, and child characteristic...
Danielle Godon-Decoteau: Transracial adoptees: the rewards and challenges of searching for their birth parents (00:30:33)
Dr. Danielle Godon-Decoteau describes her research in the area of search and reunion with birth/first family among adult transracial adoptees. She begins by outlining the range of perspectives and tho...
Sharon Glennen: Speech Language Development in Adopted Children (00:28:12)
Dr. Sharon Glennen describes her research examining speech language outcomes among adopted children. She discusses the complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors in language develo...
Harold Grotevant: Openness in Adoption (00:40:26)
Dr. Harold Grotevant holds the Rudd Family Foundation Chair in Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where he is the founding director of the Rudd Adoption Research Program. He, along...
Monica Dalen: Academic Outcomes among Adoptees (00:27:02)
Dr. Monica Dalen discusses her work on academic outcomes among adoptees. She emphasizes the variability in outcomes and the challenges that emerge when trying to make general statements about adoptees...
Karin Garber: Adoptive Microaggressions (00:30:03)
Dr. Karin Garber describes her research on adoptive microaggressions, beginning by outlining ways that stigma and stereotypes about members of the adoption kinship network can lead to intentional or u...
Bibiana Koh, JaeRan Kim & Ruth McRoy: Adoption curriculum in higher education (00:36:48)
Dr. Bibiana Koh, Dr. JaeRan Kim, and Dr. Ruth McRoy discuss the importance of thinking about adoption competency as an ongoing area of development for professionals, rather than an endpoint that can b...
Peter Selman: Adoption in the context of natural disaster (00:38:38)
Dr. Peter Selman, an expert in adoption policy and demographic trends in adoption, discusses the structural factors that lead to changing trends in international adoption. He then focuses on internati...
Anne Atkinson & Debbie Riley: Training of Adoption Competent Mental Health Practitioners (00:39:19)
Dr. Anne Atkinson, president and founder of PolicyWorks, Ltd. & Debbie Riley, LCMFT, CEO of the Center for Adoption Support and Education, discuss the importance of providing adoption competent mental...
Elizabeth Raleigh: A Nationally Representative Comparison of Black and White Adoptive Parents of Black Adoptees (00:22:46)
Dr. Elizabeth Raleigh discusses the work that she and Dr. Rose Kreider have been doing in developing a demographic understanding of White and Black adoptive parents of Black children using US Census d...
Mary Hansen: An Economic Perspective on Ethics in Adoption Policy (00:17:36)
Dr. Mary Hansen, professor of Economics at American University, describes her research and policy work in the area of child welfare. She outlines the important ethical tensions inherent in adoption an...
Hanna Raaska: Behavioral and Emotional Outcomes for International Adoptees (00:20:17)
Dr. Hanna Raaska, Chief Physician at the Pediatric Neuropsychiatric Unit at Helsinki University Hospital in Finland and member of the Finnish Adoption Study Group, discusses her research regarding beh...
Dr. Darcey Merritt & Rachel Ludeke, LMSW discuss their research regarding post-adoption services, identifying ways that service needs may vary based on adoption type (private infant, domestic foster c...
Maria Kroupina: Supporting Positive Mental Health Outcomes for Adoptees (00:28:16)
Dr. Maria Kroupina, a pediatric psychologist at the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Birth to Three Program and the Early Child Mental Health Program, di...
Elsbeth Neil: Respecting Children's Relationships and Identities in Adoption (00:31:51)
Dr. Elsbeth Neil discusses the losses that children often experience in the context of adoption and the ways that continued contact with birth family & foster carers as well as policies around residen...
Rachael Clemens: Experiences of First/Birth Mothers through an Information Science Lens (00:26:34)
Dr. Rachael Clemens discusses her research, which uses an information science lens to more deeply understand the experience of first or birth mothers both before and after they make the decision to re...
Megan Bresnahan: Sensory Processing and Adoptees with Disabilities (00:13:21)
Megan Bresnahan, OTR/L, an Occupational Therapist at the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota discusses her role at the interdisciplinary clinic and the value of multi-disciplinary ...
Sebilu Bodja & Kristi Gleason: Domestic Adoption in Ethiopia (00:45:19)
Sebilu Bodja, MPA & Kristi Gleason, LMSW, outline Ethiopia's transition from being a sending country for international adoptions toward developing and prioritizing domestic foster care and adoption pr...
Francine Fishman: Adoption in Schools (00:30:47)
Francine Fishman, LCSW, discusses what it means for educators and schools to create a culturally responsive classroom for adopted students. She provides lessons learned from her own work in training t...
Judith Eckerle: Adoption Medicine and the Adoption of Children with Disabilities (00:17:50)
Judith Eckerle, MD the Director of the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota, discusses the adoption of children with disabilities and medical conditions. She outlines trends in adop...
Emily Helder, Gretchen Wrobel, and Elisha Marr: Introducing the Routledge Handbook of Adoption (00:14:05)
The co-editors of the Routledge Handbook of Adoption discuss how they came to be working together and their main goals in putting together the Handbook. They preview the sections of the Handbook and t...
Emily Helder, Gretchen Wrobel, and Elisha Marr: Overview of adoption in the US (00:24:53)
Co-editors of the Routledge Handbook of Adoption discuss the first chapter of the Handbook that they co-wrote, providing an overview of the history of adoption in the US, current forms of adoption, an...
