Rudd Adoption Research Program Annual Conferences

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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Phil Fisher, Keynote speaker Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    poster session Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Poster award recipients, l-r, Ellen Pinderhughes, Jessica Matthews and Chie Kotake with Hal Grotevant presenting the award. Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Information tables Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Adoption Mentoring Partnership mentors talking with Virginia Rudd Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Rudd staff with Andrew and Virginia Rudd Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Rudd Board Members, standing L - R, Cynthia Monahon, David Scherer, Virginia and Andrew Rudd, Dana Johnson. sitting l- r, Maureen Perry Jenkins, Hal Grotevant, Ruth McRoy and Amanda Baden Photographer: Pablo Robles
  • Publication
    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Adoption Mentoring Partnership mentors talking with Virginia Rudd Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Conference presenters, standing L - R, Dana Johnson, Leo Farley, Michael McManus, Martha Henry, Hal Grotevant, Mary Jo Spencer and David Scherer. Sitting l - r, Phil Fisher, Adele Raade, Ruth McRoy, Rachel Farr and Jen McDermott. Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    New Worlds of Adoption Conference
    (2014-04-11)
    Hal Grotevant, Welcome and Opening remarks Photographer: Pablo Robles
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    Conference Program 2018
    (2018-04-13)
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    Cultural Socialization and Preparation-for-Bias: Critical Tasks facing Adoptive Parents in Promoting the Well-Being of their Adopted Children
    (2018-04-13) Pinderhughes, Ellen
    Families raising adopted children-of-color, in same-race or transracial, domestic or intercountry placements, face the task of helping children develop a healthy adoptive and ethnic/racial identity and deal with adoption- or race-related stigma or bias. Research suggests that these are complex processes in which what parents do and don’t do matter for adoptees. After discussing research on parents’ role in cultural socialization and preparation-for-bias, we will consider how parents can promote adoptees’ identity development and well-being and how professionals can prepare/support parents.
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    Psychotherapy with Young Adopted and Preadoptive Children with Histories of Early Deprivation, Abuse and Disrupted Caretaking
    (2018-04-13) Monahon, Cynthia
    Young children with histories of serious early adversity placed in adoptive and pre-adoptive families are often referred for therapy based on behavioral challenges and parental worry. What in "therapy" can make a difference in the developmental trajectory of these children and their critical relationships with their adoptive and/or birth parent? What might be considered "best practices" from the perspective of professionals and parents reflecting on past treatments? This workshop will explore the complexity and diversity of therapeutic work with these vulnerable young children and their parents as well as factors associated with positive outcomes based on extensive clinical experience. The focus of this presentation will be on clinical practice but all are welcome.
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    Birth Family Contact When Children are Adopted From Care: Balancing the Well-being of Adopted Children with the Needs of Birth Family Members
    (2018-04-13) Neil, Elsbeth
    The adoption of children from care involves legally severing children’s birth family connections, often against the wishes of birth parents. When thinking about contact between children and their birth relatives, complex psychological and ethical issues must be considered. How can contact benefit children in situations where they have experienced abuse and neglect in their birth family? How can we address the issues of loss for adoptees and birth family members whilst holding the long-term well-being of the adopted person in mind? Is closed adoption without parental consent ever ethically defensible? This presentation aims to start conversations about these complex issues drawing on research carried out in the United Kingdom that has explored the issue of birth family contact for children adopted from care, contrasting these UK experiences with different approaches to adoption and postadoption contact in other legal jurisdictions
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    A Need for Fundamental Change: The Role of Policy in Enabling Successful Families
    (2018-04-13) Pertman, Adam
    The basis for adoption-related policy in the U.S. is encapsulated in the mantra that every child deserves a safe, permanent and loving family. While this “child placement” focus is clearly vital, it’s also the case that the population of children and families served by adoption (as well as by the child welfare system more generally) has changed dramatically over the last several decades. As a result, many thousands of safe, permanent and loving families are struggling every day. This presentation will examine current policies of governments at all levels, child placement agencies, service providers and others who offer support to families – and will suggest that they need major reforms in order to give children and their families the wherewithal to succeed.
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    The Project on Genomic Family Health History for Adopted Persons: Challenges, Progress, and Where We’d Like to Go
    (2018-04-13) May, Thomas
    This presentation will describe challenges faced in gaining support to study the potential utilization of genetic testing to fill gaps in Adoptees’ access to family health history (FHx) information. In this context, I will describe how this collaborative project has addressed: 1. Skeptics who challenge the scientific ability to provide reliable FHx information through genetic testing; 2. Economic obstacles to the use of genetic testing to fill gaps in FHx for adopted persons; and 3. The importance of this information as much more than mere “curiosity” in the lives of many adopted persons.
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    Truth, Consequences and Reform: Rethinking Adoption in the 21st Century
    (2018-04-13) Mallon, Gary P.
    Rethinking adoption in the 21st century requires that all of us--adopted people, birth parents, adoptive parents, researchers, practitioners and policy makers--consider all possibilities, even those which might make us feel uncomfortable. The truth, the consequences of that “truth,” and the need for reform will all be explored during this presentation. The conversation will continue during the panel discussion with colleagues who are most affected by these experiences and also, hopefully, by the other workshop presenters and participants throughout the course of this conference.
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    Adoption Contracts and Deals as Plan B Parenthood
    (2018-04-13) Ertman, Martha M.
    Officially, law bans adoption contracts as baby-selling. But law professor Martha Ertman shows that people routinely enter entirely legal adoption contracts. Moreover, those contracts, and the mini-contracts that she calls “deals” help birth and adoptive families tailor the agreements to their situation. Blending memoir and law, Ertman integrates small group exercises with law and history of American adoption agreements, arguing that a contractual framework treats types of adoption as variations of family form, Plan B options when circumstances block the most common -- Plan A -- form of parenthood.
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    Family Relationship Processes and Youth Mental Health in the Context of Adoption and Foster Care: Revisiting the Developmental Interface Between Nature and Nurture
    (2018-04-13) Harold, Gordon
    The salience of family relationship influences (inter-parental/carer relationship quality, parent/carer-child relationship quality) for youth mental health and development is well recognised and has a long and established research and intervention-study history. However, understanding the relative role of genetic (nature) versus family relationship influences (nurture) on child and adolescent development has significant implications for the design of efficacious intervention and support programs aimed at vulnerable youth and families, including adoption and foster-care. This presentation will examine the role of family relationship processes (inter-parental/carer, parent/carer-child) and outcomes for youth (emotional, behavioural, academic) using an array of novel research designs that allow us to disentangle nature from nurture in examining the family process-youth development link. Examples of recent applications of this research to the development of evidence-based intervention programs specific to adoption and foster-care in the UK and internationally will also be presented.