On the aspects of social work support for adoptive parents in the process of adoption

Collection:
Mokslo publikacijos / Scientific publications
Document Type:
Straipsnis / Article
Language:
Anglų kalba / English
Title:
On the aspects of social work support for adoptive parents in the process of adoption
In the Journal:
Kultura i edukacja [Culture and education]. 2022, no. 4 (138), p. 9-33
Summary / Abstract:

ENThe article represents a part of a master thesis research project carried out at Klaipeda university. Concepts of biological, emotional, and procedural parenting obligations were utilised to analyse the issues of social work support for adoptive families. Procedural and emotional components were found to raise the biggest challenges. Although fostering and adoption mean raising a child deprived of parental care and usually needing additional help, social work support is mostly oriented towards fostering families. Therefore, social work support for adoptive parents while rather intensive in preparing the necessary documentation, initial training and matching of a family and a child, basically stops after the child arrives in a family. After that support remains purely voluntary and occasional. Research results show that the adoption process needs to be improved by revising training programmes, enhancing inter-institutional communication, and enriching the information provided for adoptive parents. The current procedures are seen as inefficient by social workers and adoptive parents. Keywords: social work, parental obligations, social work support, training of adoptive parents, adoption. [From the publication]

DOI:
10.15804/kie.2022.04.01
ISSN:
1230-266X; 1689-9083
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