Adoption & Fostering is the only quarterly peer-reviewed journal dedicated to adoption and fostering issues. Over the years, it has gained an international reputation as one of the world’s leading sources of knowledge for academics, practitioners and all those concerned with childcare practice and research.
Edited by Roger Bullock, Adoption & Fostering is published by SAGE on behalf of the CoramBAAF Adoption & Fostering Academy.
Latest Edition
Special Edition: The Power of Relationships (Sept 22)
This special edition is a collection of seminal and more recent articles from the Adoption & Fostering back catalogue that explores the theme of this year's CoramBAAF's Members’ Week - The Power of Relationships.
This special edition brings a selection of previously published articles and a book review to our readers’ attention together with a new editorial from Commissioning Editor, Roger Bullock.
Editorial
Harnessing the power of relationships (Sept 2022)
Roger Bullock
Articles
No typical care story: How do care-experienced young people and foster carers understand fostering relationships? (Oct 2021)
Eva A Sprecher, Ikesha Tuitt, Debbie Hill, Nick Midgley and Michelle Sleed
‘They needed the attention more than I did’: How do the birth children of foster carers experience the relationship with their parents? (July 2018) (SPECIAL LOGIN find out more)
Emma Adams, Alexander R Hassett and Virginia Lumsden
Confiding in others: Exploring the experiences of young people who have been in care (July 2020)
Joshua Eldridge, Mary John and Kate Gleeson
The importance of cultural identity in adoption: A study of young people adopted from Romania (Oct 2008) (SPECIAL LOGIN find out more)
Celia Beckett, Amanda Hawkins, Michael Rutter, Jenny Castle, Emma Colvert, Christine Groothues, Jana Kreppner, Suzanne Stevens and Edmund Sonuga-Barke
Disenfranchised grief: The emotional impact experienced by foster carers on the cessation of a placement (March 2019)
David Lynes and Angela Sitoe
How adopters’ and foster carers’ perceptions of ‘family’ affect communicative openness in post-adoption contact interactions (Dec 2021)
Fiona Macleod, Lesley Storey, Teresa Rushe, Michele Kavanagh, Francis Agnew and Katrina McLaughlin
The challenges in planning for permanency (Oct 2010) (SPECIAL LOGIN find out more)
Julie Selwyn
Psychological profiles of adoptees’ partners and their representations of the marital relationship (July 2022) (SPECIAL LOGIN find out more)
Johanna Despax, Evelyne Bouteyre and Théo Guiller
Resilience and family placement: A lifespan perspective (Oct 2001) (SPECIAL LOGIN find out more)
Gillian Schofield
Book review
Beyond Together or Apart: Planning for assessing and placing sibling groups by Shelagh Beckett (Dec 2019) (SPECIAL LOGIN find out more) *Second edition now available
Kate Richardson