Adoption Research Initiative

Summary 11

Enhancing adoptive parenting

Research Brief 1

Evaluation

Enhancing Adoptive Parenting:
A test of effectiveness

Alan Rushton and Elizabeth Monck

Manual for a parenting programme

Alan Rushton and Helen Upright

Alan Rushton talking about the study

A transcript of Alan Rushton’s interview

BAAF conference on 20th February 2012

Publications arising from Enhancing Adoptive Parenting

Rushton A., Monck E., Upright H. and Davidson M. (2006) Enhancing adoptive parenting: devising promising interventions, Child and Adolescent Mental Health, 11,1, 25-31.

Rushton A (2007) Enhancing Adoptive Parenting: A Randomized Controlled Trial of Adoption Support, ACAMH Occasional papers no. 26, Fostering, Adoption and Alternative Care. Conference special issue.

Rushton A. and Monck E. (2009) Adopters' experiences of preparation to parent children with serious difficulties, Adoption and Fostering, 33, 2, 4-12.

Monck E. and Rushton A. (2009) Access to post-adoption services when the child has substantial problems, Journal of Children's Services, 4, 3, 21-33.

Rushton A, Monck E., Leese M, McCrone P. and Sharac J. (2010) Enhancing adoptive parenting: a randomised controlled trial, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 15, 4, 529-542.

Rushton A. and Monck E. (2010) A 'real-world' evaluation of an adoptive parenting programme: Reflections after conducting a randomised trial, Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry special issue, 15, 4, 543-554.

Sharac J., McCrone P., Rushton A., Monck E. and Leese M.(in press) Enhancing adoptive parenting: cost effectiveness analysis, Child and Adolescent Mental Health.