Literature Related to Adoption and Guardianship, Permanence, and Well-Being February 2017 Funded through the Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Children's Bureau, Grant #90CO1122. The contents of this document do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the funders, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products or organizations imply endorsement by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. This information is in the public domain. Readers are encouraged to copy and share it, but please credit the QIC-AG. The QIC-AG is funded through a five-year cooperative agreement between the Children’s Bureau, Spaulding for Children, and its partners the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the University of Texas at Austin and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Table of Contents Intercountry adoptions and transracial adoptions .....................................................................2 Siblings ....................................................................................................................................9 Permanence with older youth ................................................................................................ 12 Interventions with children and caregivers that could be applicable for adoptive and guardianship families................................................................... 13 Triple P Parenting Intervention ............................................................................................. 13 Telemedicine Interventions .................................................................................................. 14 Parent Management Training ............................................................................................... 15 Multidimensional Treatment Foster Care .............................................................................. 16 PATHS Intervention .............................................................................................................. 16 Tuning Into Kids ................................................................................................................... 17 Other Interventions ............................................................................................................. 17 Trauma and attachment issues ............................................................................................... 25 Permanence and guardianship with relatives .......................................................................... 27 Factors that affect the well-being of children in adoptive and guardianship families ............................................................................................................. 31 First Nation ............................................................................................................................ 35 Attributes of adoptive parents and guardians ......................................................................... 38 The Adoption and Safe Families Act (ASFA) ............................................................................. 39 Open Adoption ...................................................................................................................... 41 Adoption Discontinuity, Disruption & Dissolution ................................................................... 43 Post Adoption Services ........................................................................................................... 46 Adoption-General .................................................................................................................. 48 Miscellaneous—Other Issues Relevant to Pre and Post- Permanence for Child-Welfare Involved Youth and Families ................................................... 61 PTSD ....................................................................................................................................61 Other Mental Health Issues .................................................................................................. 63 Substance Use ..................................................................................................................... 64 LGBTQ Adoption .................................................................................................................. 65 Child Welfare Policy and Law ............................................................................................... 66 Guardianship ....................................................................................................................... 67 Permanence Planning .......................................................................................................... 68 Pre and Post-Permanence Studies from Other Countries ....................................................... 71 Resilience and Child Welfare ................................................................................................ 73 Disproportionality/Disparities in Child Welfare ..................................................................... 73 Evaluation of Child Welfare Programs ................................................................................... 73 Foster Care .......................................................................................................................... 75 Other Misc. .......................................................................................................................... 77 1 This comprehensive list of citations are relevant to the Quality Improvement Center for Adoption/Guardianship Support and Preservation (QIC-AG) two target populations: Target Group 1: Children with challenging mental health, emotional or behavioral issues who are awaiting an adoptive or guardianship placement as well as children in an identified adoptive or guardianship home but the placement has not resulted in finalization for a significant period of time. Target Group 2: Children and families who have already finalized the adoption or guardianship. This group includes children who have obtained permanency through private guardianship and domestic private or international adoptions. The document contains citations between 1990 and 2016 that are categorized by various topic areas. This list was last updated in Janurary 2016. This document can be obtained on the QIC- AG website at: http://qic-ag.org/litreview/. Topic Articles Intercountry Adkison-Bradley, C., DeBose, C. H., Terpstra, J., & Bilgic, Y. K. (2012). adoptions and Postadoption services utilization among African American, transracial, and transracial white American parents: Counseling and legal implications. The Family adoptions Journal, 20(4), 392-398. Baden, A.L., Gibbons, J.L., Wilson, S.L., & McGinnis, H. (2013). International adoption: Counseling and the adoption triad. Adoption Quarterly, 16(3-4), 218-237. Bailey, S. J. (2015). Transnational adoption challenges: Through the eyes of Eastern European youth. Adoption Quarterly, 18(2), 85-107. Barnes, B. (2013). A critique of the U.S.-Russian adoption process and three recommendations for the U.S.-Russia bilateral adoption agreement. Emory International Law Review, 27, 397-446. Boer, F., Versluis-den Bieman, H. J., & Verhulst, F. C. (1994). International adoption of children with siblings: Behavioral outcomes. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 64(2), 252-262. Brumble, K.B. (2007). Intercountry transracial special needs adoptees-- today’s teenagers and young adults: How have they fared? The parents’ perspective. Retrieved from ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (3259931). 2 Butler-Sweet, C. (2011). ‘Race isn’t what defines me’: Exploring identity choices in transracial, biracial, and monoracial families. Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation, and Culture, 17(6), 747-769. Carlson, M., & Earls, F. (1997). Psychological and neuroendocrinological sequelae of early social deprivation in institutionalized children in Romania. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 15, 419-428. Castle, J., Groothues, C., Bredenkamp, D., Beckett, C., O’Connor, T., & Rutter, M. (1999). Effects of qualities of early institutional care on cognitive attainment. American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, 69(4), 424- 437. Chisholm, K. (1998). A three-year follow-up of attachment and indiscriminate friendliness in children adopted from Romanian orphanages. Child Development, 69(4), 1092-1106. Chisholm, K., Carter, M.C., Ames, E.W., & Morison, S.J. (1995). Attachment security and indiscriminately friendly behavior in children adopted from Romanian orphanages. Development and Psychopathology, 7(2), 283-294. Chugani, H.T., Behen, M.E., Muzik, O., Juhasz, C., Nagy, F., & Chugani, D.C. (2001). Local brain functional activity following early deprivation: A study of post-institutionalized Romanian orphans. Neuroimage, 14(6), 1290- 1301. Crea, T. (2009). Intercountry adoptions and domestic home study practices; SAFE and the Hague Adoption Convention. International Social Work, 52(5), 673-678. Crook, J.R. (2011). United States, Russia conclude agreement on adoptions. American Journal of International Law, 105, 775-818. Dalen, M. (1995). Learning difficulties among inter-country adopted children. Nordisk Pedagogik, 15(4), 195-208. Feigelman, W., & Silverman, A.R. (1984). The long-term effects of transracial adoption. Social Service Review, 58(4), 588-602. Fogg-Davis, H. (2003). Racial intimacy and racial politics: Adoption in the U.S. and Brazil. National Political Science Review, 9,