In this episode, Dr Dennis Golm interviews Saul Hillman about their PhD, which focused on developing the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP), a tool to measure attachment in children through narratives. Saul has been involved with all phases of the longitudinal adoption study which has followed up on late- and early-placed children since placement. 

Saul Hillman is a Senior Research Fellow at Anna Freud and an Honorary Lecturer at University College London (UCL). Saul’s research has primarily focused on attachment and mentalization in both children and adolescents, especially those who are most vulnerable, such as looked-after or adopted children.  

Read the lastest article in the study, Adoptive parents’ worries and concerns about their adolescent adopted children, in Volume 48 Issue 1, March 2024 of ‘Adoption & Fostering’. 

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ARTICLES 

Assessing changes in the internal worlds of early- and late-adopted children using the Story Stem Assessment Profile (SSAP) (‘Adoption & Fostering’, 2020) 

Changes in Attachment Representations Over the First Year of Adoptive Placement: Narratives of Maltreated Children (‘Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry’, 2003) 

Adoptive parents’ worries and concerns about their adolescent adopted children (‘Adoption & Fostering’, 2024) 

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