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Assessing Readiness for Adoption
Resources on assessing the child and parent's readiness for adoption.
Child readiness for adoption
Child Assessment and Preparation: Participant's Resource Book
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption (1998)
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Background information and worksheets for a training session for practitioners about preparing children for adoption placements. Includes checklists for life books, forms for child placement history, genograms, eco-maps, and family network diagrams.
Communicating Through Play: Techniques for Assessing and Preparing Children for Adoption
National Resource Center for Special Needs Adoption (1998)
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Designed to help adoption workers develop a larger repertoire of techniques for assessing and preparing children for adoption and use assessment findings to better assist the adoptive parents. Appendices include a child evaluation form, life book guidelines, and instructions for a behavior pattern chart.
| Helping Your Foster Child Transition to Your Adopted Child | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 255KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 6 pages |
| There are a number of ways to help foster children make the emotional transition from being "a ward of the State or the Court" to being "a son or daughter" of foster/adoptive parents. This fact sheet describes specific things families can say and do to help foster children transition, including: talking with children about the changes, engaging in activities to help children understand their own history and background and the reasons why they cannot live with their birth family, helping children adjust to these losses, and helping children transfer their attachments to the foster/adoptive family. Additionally, families will need to ... | |
Linking and Introductions: Helping Children Join Adoptive Families
British Agencies for Adoption and Fostering (2001)
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Outlines the important stages in adoption preparation, including needs and strengths assessment, minimizing risk, the presentation of the child's background to the prospective adoptive parents, and introductions. Includes sample checklists and report formats.
Parent readiness for adoption
Assessing Emotional Readiness for Adoption Using the Transtheoretical Model
Prochaska, Paiva, Padula, Prochaska, & Montgomery
Children and Youth Services Review, 27(2), 2005
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Applies the Transtheoretical Model to conceptualizing and assessing emotional readiness to be an adoptive parent. Describes definitions, criteria, and the development and validation of measures.
Factors Contributing to Parents' Preparation for Special-Needs Adoption
Egbert, & LaMont
Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 21(6), 2004
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Describes twelve factors that contribute to parents' preparation for special-needs adoption.
| Foster Parents Considering Adoption | |
| Series Title: | Factsheets for Families |
| Author(s): | Child Welfare Information Gateway |
| Availability: | View Download (PDF - 195KB) Order (Free) - Add to Cart |
| Year Published: | 2005 - 6 pages |
| This factsheet is written for foster parents who are considering adopting a child in their care. It provides information on the differences between foster care and adoption, and explores some of the things for foster parents to consider when making the decision about whether to adopt a child in their care. Additional topics discussed include: trends in foster parent adoption, benefits of foster parent adoption for all involved, characteristics of foster families who successfully adopt children in their care, and characteristics of foster families whose adoptions failed. Resources are provided. | |