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Changing nature of adoption and need for post-adoption services: Intercountry adoption practice in Taiwan and Australia
Lin, Ching-Hsuan; Chen, Yu-Wen; Wang, Chin-Wan; Wright, Amy Conley; Spencer, Margaret; Van Wichelen, SonjaPublished 2021This study explores issues on post-adoption services in intercountry adoptions based on the perspectives of adoption professionals from Taiwan and Australia. Findings revealed that both birth and adoptive families identify ...Open AccessArticle -
How foster carers experience agency support for birth family contact.
Collings, Susan; Wright, Amy Conley; Spencer, Margaret; Luu, BettyPublished 2019-06-06Long‐term foster carers in New South Wales, Australia, are being encouraged to consider open adoption of the child in their care. This includes an agreement to facilitate direct or face‐to‐face birth family contact without ...Open AccessArticle -
Intersectional Disadvantage: Exploring Differences Between Aboriginal and Non-Aboriginal Parents with Intellectual Disability in the New South Wales Child Protection System
Collings, Susan; Dew, A; Gordon, T; Spencer, Margaret; Dowse, LPublished 2018-01-01Background: Two parent groups overrepresented in child protection matters are those with intellectual disability and those from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander backgrounds. To date, no research has explored the child ...Open AccessArticle -
‘I’m the centre part of a Venn diagram’: belonging and identity for Taiwanese-Australian intercountry adoptees
Stoddart, Jennifer; Wright, Amy Conley; Spencer, Margaret; van Wichelen, SonjaPublished 2021Intercountry adoptees face many challenges in developing their identity and achieving a sense of belonging in post-assimilation Australia. This study uses a constructivist approach to analyse narrative interviews with a ...Open AccessArticle -
Narrating connection in intercountry adoption: Complexities of openness in Taiwan‒Australia adoptions
Wright, Amy Conley; van Wichelen, Sonja; Spencer, Margaret; Chen, Yu-Wen; Lin, Ching‐Hsuan; Wang, Chin-WanPublished 2020-01-01Connection and reunion is central to adoption, though complicated by geographical, cultural and linguistic differences in the intercountry adoption space. Drawing from narrative interviews, this study investigated perspectives ...Open AccessArticle -
‘She was there if I needed to talk or to try and get my point across’: specialist advocacy for parents with intellectual disability in the Australian child protection system
Collings, Susan; Spencer, Margaret; Dew, Angela; Dowse, LeannePublished 2018-01-01Parents with intellectual disability are overrepresented in child protection matters due to a combination of socioeconomic disadvantage and assumptions of parenting incapacity by child welfare workers and courts. Inability ...Open AccessArticle -
Telling visual stories of loss and hope: Body mapping with mothers about contact after child removal
Collings, Susan; Wright, Amy Conley; Spencer, MargaretPublished 2021Visual research methods reduce reliance on verbal communication and offer an avenue for non-verbal storytelling. Body mapping is a visual arts-based research method with its origins in art therapy and community development. ...Open AccessArticle
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