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2016
Friday, May 13th
8:00 AM

Predictive Associations Between Prenatal and Postnatal Risk Factors and Developmental and Temperamental Outcomes Among Infants in Foster Care

Irene Tung, University of California, Los Angeles
Allison Brandt, University of California, Los Angeles
Audra Langley, University of California, Los Angeles
Jill Waterman, University of California, Los Angeles

8:00 AM

Trends in U.S. Adoptions: 2008-2012

Matthew Shuman, Child Welfare Information Gateway

8:00 AM

Unique Features of Identity Development in Transnational Adoptions

Minori Haga Stefon, University of New Hampshire
Erin Hiley Sharp, University of New Hampshire

8:00 AM

Trajectories of Mental Health in Children Adopted From Foster Care

Austin Blake, University of California, Los Angeles
Jill Waterman, University of California, Los Angeles

8:00 AM

Birthmothers as Grandmothers: Examining forms of post adoption contact & relationship quality with placed children & grandchildren

Addie Wyman Battalen, Boston College
Christina Wigglesworth, Boston College
Ruth McRoy, Boston College
Hal Grotevant, Boston College

8:00 AM

Adoption-Related Topic Avoidance: The Role of Structure and Communication Processes in Adoptive Families

Shane A. Kavanaugh, Iowa State University
Diana Lang, Iowa State University

8:00 AM

SAFE PLACE: A Collaborative Sensory Integration-Based Approach to Treating Trauma

Teresa A. Benson, Spiral Foundation
Sarah Sawyer, The Koomar Center

8:00 AM

Ethnic Racial Socialization Among Inracial International Adoptive Placements

Jessica A.K. Matthews, Tufts University
Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Tufts University

8:00 AM

Contextual Diversity and Microaggressions in the Lives of Transracially-Adopted Children from China

Emily Zhang, Tufts University
Xian Zhang, Tufts University
Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Tufts University

8:00 AM

Out of the Mouths of Babes: Developmental Differences in Young Children's Microaggressions and Relations with Parent-Child Discussions

Xian Zhang, Tufts University
Alexandria Cinney, Tufts University
Anthony DeBenedetto, Tufts University
Cecelia Nealon-Shapiro, Tufts University
Hae Rham Shin, Tufts University
Emily Zhang, Tufts University
Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Tufts University

8:00 AM

The Role of Developmental Comprehension in Understanding Microaggressions in Transracially-Adopted Children

Anthony DeBenedetto, Tufts University
Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Tufts University

8:00 AM

Intraracial and Intraethnic Microagressions Experienced by Korean American Internationally and Transracially Adopted Persons

Karin J. Garber, University of Massachusetts - Amherst
Krystal K. Cashen, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM

Adoption Related Curiosity in Emerging Adulthood

Gretchen Miller Wrobel, Bethel University
Harold D. Grotevant, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

8:00 AM

Privacy and Confidentiality in Adoption Research: Perspectives from the Minnesota/Texas Adoption Research Project

Albert Lo
Harold Grotevant
Ruth McRoy

8:00 AM