MONDAY evening – Introductory session in Norwich Cathedral

5.30-6.30pm

Drinks and nibbles in cathedral refectory

6.30-6.40pm

Dr Beth Neil

Welcome address

6.40-6.45pm

David Eastwood (UEA vice chancellor)

Welcome to UEA

6.45 – 7.30pm

Professor David Howe

Adoption: nature, nurture and narratives 

TUESDAY morning – keynote talks 9am-1pm

9-10am

Professor  Jesús Palacios

The ecology of adoption

Ten minute comfort break

10.10-11.10

Professor Ruth McRoy

Children in care can be adopted

Thirty minute coffee break

11.40-12.40

Professor David Reiss

The adoptive rearing environment: an important opportunity for toddlers at biological risk for behavioural problems 

12.40-1pm

Chair and all 3 speakers

Plenary discussion and questions  from audience

One hour lunch break

TUESDAY afternoon concurrent session 1                 2-3.30pm

Event

Title

Discussant

Workshop 3

Panel discussion - The search for stability and family membership for children in care who can not go home 

Paper Symposium 2

Making sense of both cultural and adoptive identity – issues for inter country adopted children  

Monica Dalen

Paper Symposium 3

The influence of adoptive families on the development of adopted children.

Hal Grotevant

Paper Symposium 8

Adoptive parent motivation and recruitment

John Simmonds

Thirty minute coffee break 3.30-4pm

TUESDAY afternoon concurrent session 2                4-5.30pm

Event

Title

Discussant

Workshop 4

Workshop 4 - Searching Questions: identity, origins and adoption- developing a workbook/video training resource pack for practice

Paper Symposium 10

Domestic special needs placement – practice and support issues

Gillian Schofield

Paper Symposium 11

Adoption from the perspective of birth family members

David Howe

Paper Symposium 6

The use of domestic and intercountry adoptions – cross national comparisons 

Clive Sellick

TUESDAY early evening posters (with drinks reception) – 5.30-7pm

Poster symposium 1

Different faces of adoption around the world

Poster symposium 2

Parent child relationships – attachment and beyond

Poster symposium 3

The health and physical development of internationally adopted children.

Poster symposium 4

Adoption and identity

WEDNESDAY morning – Keynote talks 9am-1pm

9-10am

Professor Sir Michael Rutter

Romanian adoptees at 11 years: Practical and theoretical lessons and challenges

Ten minute comfort break

10.10-11.10

Professor Femmie Juffer

International Adoption Comes of Age: Development of International Adoptees from a Longitudinal and Meta-Analytic Perspective (Femmie Juffer & Marinus H. van IJzendoorn). 

Thirty minute coffee break

11.40-12.40

Dr Miriam Steele

Changing minds: attachment representations and adoption outcome in a maltreated sample 

12.40-1

Chair and all three speakers

Plenary discussion and questions from audience

One hour lunch break

WEDNESDAY afternoon  concurrent sessions                2-3.30pm

Event

Title

Discussant

Workshop 2

Methodological challenges and solutions

Paper Symposium 1

Children adopted across cultural/racial groups – the influence of social attitudes

Ruth McRoy

Paper Symposium 4

Adopted children’s development after early institutional care

Michael Rutter

Paper Symposium 12

The dynamics and processes between adopted children and adoptive parents.

Jesús Palacios

Thirty minute coffee break 3.30-4pm

THURSDAY morning – keynote talks – 9am-1pm

9-10am

Professor E. Wayne Carp

A Legal History of the Movement to Open Adoption Records: An International Perspective 

Ten minute comfort break

10.10-11.10am

Dr Beth Neil

Open and closed placements and open and closed minds: what adoptive parents think feel and do about post-adoption contact 

Thirty minute coffee break

11.40-12.40

Professor Hal Grotevant

Emotional Distance Regulation over the Life Course in Adoptive Kinship Networks 

12.40-1pm

Chair and all three speakers

Plenary discussion and questions from audience

One hour lunch break

THURSDAY afternoon concurrent sessions                2-3.30pm

Event

Title

Discussant

Workshop 1

Supporting adoptions in difficulty

Paper Symposium 5

Adolescence and early adulthood – how internationally adopted children develop in the longer term 

Malin Irhammer

Paper Symposium 7

The Domestic and international ramifications of inter country adoption 

Peter Selman

Paper Symposium 9

Adoption and other permanent placement options – how do they compare? 

June Thoburn

Thirty minute coffee break 3.30-4pm

THURSDAY posters –  4-5.30pm

Poster symposia 5

Birth family connections (contact, search and reunion)

Poster symposia 6

Supporting placements

Poster symposia 7

Developmental outcomes for adoptees

Poster symposia 8

Adoptive parenting - developmental perspectives