"Det är annorlunda att vara adoptivföräldrar" - En undersökning av adoptionsrådgivares beskrivning av arbetet med adoptivfamiljer utifrån anknytningsteori och socialkonstruktivism
(2014) SOPA63 20141School of Social Work
- Abstract
- The aim of this study was to examine how professional adoption counselors perceives and works with the problems that may occur in adoptive families. With a qualitative method of semi-structured interviews five adoption counselors were interviewed to answer the questions: What difficulties do professionals experience in the adoptive family when they seek help? What causes do the professionals see to the problems that the adoptive family has? How do the professionals meet the adoptive familys’ difficulties? An adoption counselor, according to our definition, is a professional with special knowledge and experience in working with adoptive families. The results showed that adoption counselors see problems as attachment difficulties, a general... (More)
- The aim of this study was to examine how professional adoption counselors perceives and works with the problems that may occur in adoptive families. With a qualitative method of semi-structured interviews five adoption counselors were interviewed to answer the questions: What difficulties do professionals experience in the adoptive family when they seek help? What causes do the professionals see to the problems that the adoptive family has? How do the professionals meet the adoptive familys’ difficulties? An adoption counselor, according to our definition, is a professional with special knowledge and experience in working with adoptive families. The results showed that adoption counselors see problems as attachment difficulties, a general concern from the parents about their childs’ development, the childs’ behavioral problems, anxiety related to school and preschool and the experience of an abnormal behavior from the child.
It was concluded that in most cases it was attachment difficulties between the child and parent that contributed to the difficulties in the families. Furthermore, it was found that the causes of the difficulties could be the parents’ unprocessed trauma from their own childhood, the parents’ unprocessed involuntary childlessness, a past trauma in the childs’ life, the childs’ separation sensitivity and parental expectations that do not conform to the childs’ actions. The study also showed that the adoption councelors treatment of families and their difficulties characterized by confirmation, sensitivity and respect. The response from the councelors was found to be controlled by internalized and externalised norms about how a family should be. It was concluded that the biological child was desirable and was seen as the norm and what most parents, as adoption counselors encounter, aspired. Adoption counselors also saw other professionals’ lack of knowledge about adoption-related issues that the family or the child may have. (Less)
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- Hansson, Lisa LU and Axhem, Linnéa LU
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- organization
- course
- SOPA63 20141
- year
- 2014
- type
- M2 - Bachelor Degree
- subject
- keywords
- Adoption counsellor, adoptive parents, attachment, social construction, post-adoption service
- language
- Swedish
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- 4465142
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abstract = {{The aim of this study was to examine how professional adoption counselors perceives and works with the problems that may occur in adoptive families. With a qualitative method of semi-structured interviews five adoption counselors were interviewed to answer the questions: What difficulties do professionals experience in the adoptive family when they seek help? What causes do the professionals see to the problems that the adoptive family has? How do the professionals meet the adoptive familys’ difficulties? An adoption counselor, according to our definition, is a professional with special knowledge and experience in working with adoptive families. The results showed that adoption counselors see problems as attachment difficulties, a general concern from the parents about their childs’ development, the childs’ behavioral problems, anxiety related to school and preschool and the experience of an abnormal behavior from the child.
It was concluded that in most cases it was attachment difficulties between the child and parent that contributed to the difficulties in the families. Furthermore, it was found that the causes of the difficulties could be the parents’ unprocessed trauma from their own childhood, the parents’ unprocessed involuntary childlessness, a past trauma in the childs’ life, the childs’ separation sensitivity and parental expectations that do not conform to the childs’ actions. The study also showed that the adoption councelors treatment of families and their difficulties characterized by confirmation, sensitivity and respect. The response from the councelors was found to be controlled by internalized and externalised norms about how a family should be. It was concluded that the biological child was desirable and was seen as the norm and what most parents, as adoption counselors encounter, aspired. Adoption counselors also saw other professionals’ lack of knowledge about adoption-related issues that the family or the child may have.}},
author = {{Hansson, Lisa and Axhem, Linnéa}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{"Det är annorlunda att vara adoptivföräldrar" - En undersökning av adoptionsrådgivares beskrivning av arbetet med adoptivfamiljer utifrån anknytningsteori och socialkonstruktivism}},
year = {{2014}},
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