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Postadoption Services
Bulletin for Professionals

Author(s):  Child Welfare Information Gateway

Year Published:  2005

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10. What Future Research Is Needed?

Outcome evaluations of all services in these times of tight budgets are critical to sustaining effective programs. Researchers suggest that future research in postadoption focus on the following areas:

• Comparison of families adopting older children and those qualifying for adoption assistance with intact biological families
  
  
• Outcome studies with larger sample sizes of heterogeneous subgroups (Partnering between public and private social services to gain larger sample sizes is suggested.)
  
  
• Prevention-focused research looking at preparation and support of adoptive families to assist them in being more realistic and to have positive adoption outcomes
  
  
• Longitudinal studies of services of the need and usage of postadoption service patterns throughout the adoptive family life cycle
  
  
• Empirical research on the effectiveness of postadoption services, including the impact of specific services and interventions (Brown, 1996; Casey, 2003b; Casey 2003a)

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You are in section: Table of Contents 1 - Introduction 2 - Who Benefits From Postadoption… 3 - How Can Postadoption … 4 - What Postadoptive Services… 5 - What Postadoptive Services Do S… 6 - How Are Postadoption Services… 7 - How Are Postadoption Services… 8 - Why Evaluate Postadoption s… 9 - What Are the Implications Fors… 10 - What Future Research… 11 - Conclusion 12 - References 13 - Resources

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