Child Preparation for Adoption as an Ethical Requirement during Pre-Placement: The PPCA

IF 0.9 Q3 SOCIAL WORK

Adoption Quarterly Pub Date : 2020-10-23 DOI:10.1080/10926755.2020.1834043

M. Henriques, Isabel Fidalgo, D. Teixeira, Margarida Domingues, Sara Silva

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Abstract

Abstract Child adoption is a highly demanding process for all those involved, including the child, parents, and professionals. Support is needed to maximize the chances of adequate preparation, focusing on not just the parents’ preparedness but also the child’s preparation for adoption. Preparing a child for adoption is an ethical obligation. Assuming that the child is at the center of the adoption process, this paper highlights the importance of acknowledging the child’s specific needs and giving them adequate opportunity to develop into a fully engaged agent throughout the process. This article focuses on the Program for Preparing Children for Adoption (PPCA), a specific manual intervention designed to help professionals prepare children for adoption. The program is based on theoretical concepts of the psychology of adoption, the bioecological development perspective and a narrative psychology approach. First, the PPCA’s theoretical background is presented, followed by each one of its core aspects and specific activities. The article concludes with a summary of this program’s major contributions to child preparation as well as recommendations for future research and practice.

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儿童收养准备是预安置期间的道德要求：PPCA

儿童收养是一个对所有相关方都要求很高的过程，包括儿童、父母和专业人士。需要提供支持，以最大限度地增加充分准备的机会，不仅注重父母的准备，而且注重儿童对收养的准备。让孩子做好被收养的准备是一种道德义务。假设儿童处于收养过程的中心，本文强调了承认儿童的特殊需求，并在整个过程中给予他们充分的机会发展成为一个充分参与的代理人的重要性。这篇文章的重点是准备收养儿童计划(PPCA)，这是一种专门的人工干预，旨在帮助专业人士为收养儿童做准备。该计划基于收养心理学的理论概念，生物生态发展视角和叙事心理学方法。首先介绍了PPCA的理论背景，然后介绍了PPCA的各个核心方面和具体活动。文章最后总结了该计划对儿童准备的主要贡献以及对未来研究和实践的建议。

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Adoption Quarterly SOCIAL WORK-

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期刊介绍： Adoption Quarterly is an unparalleled forum for examining the issues of child care, of adoption as viewed from a lifespan perspective, and of the psychological and social meanings of the word "family." This international, multidisciplinary journal features conceptual and empirical work, commentaries, and book reviews from the fields of the social sciences, humanities, biological sciences, law, and social policy. In addition to examining ethical, biological, financial, social and psychological adoption issues, Adoption Quarterly addresses continuity in adoption issues that are important to both practitioners and researchers, such as: negotiation of birth and adoptive family contact.