285 research outputs found
sj-pdf-1-aaf-10.1177_03085759231212499 - Supplemental material for Interrupting a cycle of placement instability with short-term residential care: Trauma-informed family-like relational practice in one specialist unit
No full textSupplemental material, sj-pdf-1-aaf-10.1177_03085759231212499 for Interrupting a cycle of placement instability with short-term residential care: Trauma-informed family-like relational practice in one specialist unit by Mandi MacDonald and Kathryn Gillespie in Adoption & Fostering</p
Parenthood and Open Adoption: an Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis
No full textThis book explores what it is like to be involved in contemporary open adoption, characterised by varying forms of contact with birth relatives, from an adoptive parent point of view. The author’s fine-grained interpretative phenomenological analysis of adopters’ accounts reveals the complexity of kinship for those whose most significant relationships are made, unmade and permanently altered through adoption. MacDonald distinctively connects adoption to wider sociological theories of relatedness and personal life, and focuses on domestic non-kin adoption of children from state care, including compulsory adoption. The book also addresses current child welfare concerns, and suggestions are made for adoption practice. The book will be of interest to scholars and students with an interest in adoption, social work, child welfare, foster care, family and sociology.<br/
Managing Your Rights as an Academic Author
No full textWhat are your rights when it comes to using academic material that you have written yourself and published in a journal or academic text? What did the publishing contract you signed state about copyright? If you are among the many faculty who do not have confident answers to these questions, this workshop will help you examine how to manage your rights as an author going forward, as well as introduce you to the concept of Open Access and the library\u27s institutional repository, EngagedScholarship.
Register (and get a box lunch) here: https://www.csuohio.edu/cfe/center-for-faculty-excellence-workshop
‘A picture of who we are as a family’: conceptualizing post-adoption contact as practices of family display
No full textSocial work has a central role in negotiating and supporting birth family contact following adoption from care. This paper argues that family display (Finch) offers a useful conceptual resource for understanding relationships in the adoptive kinship network as they are enacted through contact. It reports on an interpretative phenomenological analysis of adoptive parents' accounts of open adoption from care that revealed direct and indirect contact to be contexts in which they and birth relatives performed family display practices: communicating the meaning of their respective relationships with the adopted child and seeking recognition that this was a legitimate family relationship. The analysis explores how family display was performed, and the impact of validating or invalidating responses. It aims to illuminate these social and interpretive processes involved in adoptive kinship in order to inform social work support for contact. The findings suggest that successful contact may be promoted by helping adoptive and birth relatives validate the legitimacy of the other's kin connection with the child, and through arrangements that facilitate family-like interactions
Mandi : Learning Management Through Field Sales Experience
No full textIn this article author tried to describe how a field sales experience can be used as effective management teaching method. The field experience titled as “Mandi” involves selling toy products in the market place. Four learning objectives are identified. They are: a. Understanding the managerial functions, b. Practicing certain managerial skills, c. Understanding the Personal Selling Process and d. Understanding the Customer and Markets. The process of conducting the exercise and the framework for learning is shared in this article. Method of student evaluation is discussed as part of the exercise. The article concludes that there is great potential to use the field sales experience to create learnings encompassing various topics in management discipline
Trauma-informed approaches to birth family contact for children adopted from out-of-home care
No full textIntroduction: For children adopted from out-of-home care, maintaining connection with birth relatives can promoteunderstanding of their life story and identity development. However, children may experience significantdistress when contact visits do not go well. Moreover, parents of children who are taken into care often havetheir own complex trauma that can affect their ability to connect with their children.Aims: A multi-disciplinary and international working group identified key approaches for applying traumaawareness to support children’s contact with birth relatives, including the gaps in evidence and potential questionsfor research.Method: This research collaboration draws upon a rapid evidence review conducted by MacDonald on traumainformedchild welfare systems, and qualitative research led by Wright on experiences of children, carers andbirth parents with contact visits for children in permanent care and adoption. From this research and consultationswith practitioners, case studies of children’s experiences in contact were developed, highlighting scenariosthat could be distressing and dysregulating for children.Findings and discussion: Recommendations from the group identified approaches to changing practice and closingthe research-to-practice gap by incorporating emerging evidence-based practices that address the neuroscienceand treatment of complex childhood trauma and help families and communities to heal.Implications:Trauma is central to the experiences of children in out-of-home care, including their experiences offace-to-face birth family contact. Direct contact, as is expected in adoptions from out-of-home care in Australiaand Northern Ireland, needs to be planned and supported to minimize harm to children and promote theirhealing from trauma.9
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