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Second International Conference on Adoption Research 17-21 July 2006 University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK |
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E. Wayne Carp holds the Benson Family Chair in History and is Professor of History at Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, USA. His research focuses on the history of secrecy and openness in adoption. He is the author of “Family Matters: Secrecy and Disclosure in the History of Adoption” (1998) and “Adoption Politics: Bastard Nation and Ballot Initiative 58” (2004) and the editor of “Adoption in America: Historical Perspectives” (2002). A recognized expert on legal issues, he has served as a consultant, deponent, and expert witness throughout North America in cases that concern “wrongful adoption,” secrecy in adoption records, and the history of adoption disclosure laws. His current research centers on the life of Jean Paton and her influence in shaping the U.S. and Canadian adoption reform movements. |
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Hal Grotevant is Distinguished University Teaching Professor of Family Social Science and Adjunct Professor of Child Psychology at the University of Minnesota. His research focuses on relationships in adoptive families, and on identity development in adolescents and young adults. His work has resulted in over 100 articles published in professional journals as well as several books, including Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections (with Ruth McRoy, Sage Publications, 1998). He is a Fellow of the American Psychological Association and the National Council on Family Relations; Senior Research Fellow of the Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute; former Board President of Adoptive Families of America; and recipient of the College of Human Ecology’s Excellence in Research Award, McFarland Outstanding Teaching Award, and Educational Leadership Award. He is also a member of the university’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers. He has been actively involved with the Children, Youth, and Family Consortium since its inception and recently chaired its Advisory Board as well as the 2005 Children’s Summit, “Smart Policies, Strong Families.” In 2005, he received new funding from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the National Science Foundation, and the William T. Grant Foundation to continue the longitudinal research project he began with Ruth McRoy in the mid-1980s on relationships in adoptive families, in which the study’s children, first seen in middle childhood, are now young adults in their 20s. Web Links: The Minnesota/Texas Adoption
Research Project The International Adoption
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David Howe is Professor
of Social Work and Head of the School of Social Work and Psychosocial
Sciences at University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Link to home page: www.uea.ac.uk/swk/ |
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Professor Juffer holds the Chair for Adoption Studies at Leiden University, Center for Child and Family Studies, The Netherlands. She has carried out longitudinal research into international adoption, attachment in adoptive families, intervention in adoptive families, and has, with colleagues, produced a number of important meta analyses. Links to homepages: |
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Ruth G. McRoy is a Research Professor and the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor Emeritus at the University of Texas School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin. She has served as the Associate Dean for Research, Director of the Center for Social Work Research and Director of the Diversity Institute at the University of Texas School of Social Work. She also held a joint appointment with the Center for African and African American Studies and was a member of the University of Texas Academy of Distinguished Professors. Dr McRoy's research interests include the following: family preservation, open adoptions, emotionally disturbed adopted children and adolescents; transracial adoptions; cross-cultural relationships; sexual abuse, adolescent pregnancy, cultural diversity, domestic violence, African American families, racial identity development, African American adoptions, special needs adoptions and adoptive family dynamics. She has recently completed a study of racial disparities in foster care. As part of the Collaboration to Adopt US Kids, she is currently conducting research on barriers to adoption and factors associated with successful special needs adoptions. She has authored or co-authored seven books and numerous articles and book chapters on adoptions. |
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Dr Elsbeth Neil is Lecturer in Social Work at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. She has an emerging international reputation for her longitudinal research investigating how adoptive parents, adopted children and birth relatives feel about, and are affected by, direct and indirect post adoption contact. In 2004 she co-edited with David Howe the book “Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster care: research, theory and practice”. She is currently directing a government funded study investigating adoption support services: those provided to support the birth relatives of adopted children; and those provided to support face-to-face post-adoption contact between adopted children and members of their birth family. |
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Jesús Palacios is Professor of Developmental Psychology at the University of Sevilla, Spain. His research interests are in foster care and adoption. He has conducted longitudinal research on domestic adoption as well as research on intercountry adoptions into Spain. He is also interested in policy issues, he has co-authored a training programme for prospective adopters and a post-adoption support book for parents. He is co-editor (with David Brodzinsky) of the book “Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice” (2005). |
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David Reiss MD is Vivian
Gill Distinguished Research Professor, Director of the Division of Research
and the Center for Family Research, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral
Sciences, George Washington University, USA. |
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Professor Sir Michael Rutter is Professor of Developmental Psychopathology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College, London, UK. He has led a major study into the effect of early severe deprivation on Romanian orphans adopted into Britain; this is now entering a third phase in which the subjects are followed up at age 15. He has published nearly forty books and over four hundred chapters and journal articles: his reputation is worldwide. |
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Dr Miriam Steele is Associate Professor and Assistant Director of clinical training at New School University, New York, USA. She is a developmental psychologist and child psychotherapist, and is well know for her research in the field of attachment . Together with colleagues at the Thomas Coram Foundation she has carried out research looking at attachment representations and relationships in older child adoptive placements. |
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