Selected publications covering:
- Post-adoption contact
- Contact with birth relatives for children in foster care
- Contact and social media
- Contact with siblings
Post-adoption contact
Adams, P. 2012. Planning for Contact in Permanent Placements. London: BAAF
Beckett, C. et al. 2008. The Experience of Adoption (2); the association between communicative openness and self-esteem in adoption. Adoption and Fostering, 32(1) 29-39
Bond, H. 2007. Ten Top Tips for Managing Contact London. BAAF
Boyle, C. 2017. ‘What is the impact of birth family contact on children in adoption and long‐term foster care?’ A systematic review. Child & Family Social Work, 22(S1) 22-33. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cfs.12236
Children’s Rights Director for England. 2009. Keeping in Touch, Manchester: Ofsted
del Pozo de Bolger, A., Dunstan, D., and Kaltner, M. 2018. Open Adoptions of Children from Foster Care in New South Wales Australia: Adoption Process and Post-Adoption Contact. Adoption Quarterly, 1-20. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10926755.2018.1448915
Farr, R. H., Ravvina, Y., and Grotevant, H. D. 2018. Birth family contact experiences among lesbian, gay, and heterosexual adoptive parents with school‐age children. Family Relations, 67(1) 132-146. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/fare.12295
Featherstone, B., Gupta, A. and Mills , S. 2018. The role of the social worker in adoption – ethics and human rights: An enquiry. BASW https://www.basw.co.uk/resources/role-social-worker-adoption-%E2%80%93-ethics-and-human-rights-enquiry
Gilmore, S. 2017. The changing face of adoption–the gift/donation model versus the contract/services model. In Parental Rights and Responsibilities 141-156. Routledge
Grotevant, H.D., et al. 2011. Post-Adoption Contact, Adoption Communicative Openness, and Satisfaction with Contact as Predictors of Externalizing Behavior in Adolescence and Emerging Adulthood. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 52(5) 529-536
Jones, C. 2016. Openness in adoption: Challenging the narrative of historical progress. Child & Family Social Work, 21(1) 85-93. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cfs.12113
Loxtercamp, L. 2009. Contact and truth: the unfolding predicament in adoption and fostering. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 14(3) 423-35
Macaskill, C. 2002. Safe Contact? Children in permanent placement and contact with their birth relatives. Dorset: Russell House Publishing
MacDonald, M. 2017. Connecting of Disconnecting? Adoptive Parents’ Experiences of Post Adoption Contact and their Support Needs. Belfast: Health and Social Care Board (N.I.). 43 p. https://pure.qub.ac.uk/portal/files/132848187/AUK_Report_Connecting_or_Disconnecting_MMacD_17.pdf
MacDonald, M. 2017. ‘A picture of who we are as a family’: conceptualizing post‐adoption contact as practices of family display. Child & Family Social Work, 22(S1) 34-43. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cfs.12248
MacDonald, M. 2016. Parenthood and open adoption: An interpretative phenomenological analysis. Springer
MacDonald, M., and McLoughlin, P. 2016. Paramountcy, Family Rights and Contested Adoption: Does Contact with Birth Relatives Balance the Scales?. Child Care in Practice, 22(4) 401-407
Meakings, S., Ottaway, H., Coffey, A., Palmer, C., Doughty, J., and Shelton, K. 2018. The support needs and experiences of newly formed adoptive families: findings from the Wales Adoption Study. Adoption & Fostering, 42(1) 58-75. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0308575917750824
Mendenhall, T., et al. 2004. Adolescents’ Satisfaction with Contact in Adoption. Child & Adolescent Social Work Journal. 21(2) 175-190
Neil, E. 2010. The benefits and challenges of direct post-adoption contact: perspectives from adoptive parents and birth relatives. Aloma. Revista de Psicologia, Ciències de l’Educació i de l’Esport. 27.
Neil, E. 2018. Rethinking adoption and birth family contact: is there a role for the law? Family Law. September 2018. 1178-1182.
Neil, E., Beek, M. and Ward, E. 2014. Contact after Adoption: a longitudinal study of adopted young people and their adoptive parents and birth relatives. London: BAAF
Neil, E., Cossar, J., Jones, C., Lorgelly, P. and Young, J. 2011. Supporting Direct Contact after Adoption. BAAF. London. https://corambaaf.org.uk/books/supporting-direct-contact-after-adoption
Quinton, D., Rushton, A., Dance, C. and Mayes, D. 1997. Contact between Children placed away from Home and their Birth Parents: research issues and evidence. Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry. 2(3) 393-413
Schofield, G. and Beek, M. 2014. The Secure Base Model Promoting attachment and resilience in foster care and adoption. https://corambaaf.org.uk/books/secure-base-model
Taplin, S., 2005. Is all Contact between Children in Care and their Birth Parents ‘Good’ Contact?, Ashfield: Centre for Parenting and Research, NSW
The Care Inquiry. 2013. Making not Breaking: building relationships for our most vulnerable children, s.l.: The Care Inquiry
The Care Inquiry. 2013. Understanding Permanence for Looked After Children, s.l.: s.n
Sydney, L. and Price, E. 2014. Facilitating Meaningful Contact in Adoption and Fostering: a trauma informed approach to planning, assessing and good practice London; Jessica Kinsgley
Contact with birth relatives for children in foster care
Atwool, N. 2013. Birth Family Contact for Children in Care: How Much? How Often? Who With? Child Care in Practice, 19(2) 181-198
Austerberry, H., et al. 2013. Foster carers and family contact: foster carers’ views of social work support. Adoption & Fostering, 37 116-129
Bullen, T., et al. 2017. Interventions to improve supervised contact visits between children in out of homecare and their parents: a systematic review. Child & Family Social Work, 22(2) 822-833
Chateauneuf, D., Pagé, G., and Decaluwe, B. 2017. Issues Surrounding Post-Adoption Contact in Foster Adoption: The Perspective of Foster-to-Adopt Families and Child Welfare Workers. Journal of Public Child Welfare, 1-25. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/15548732.2017.1397079?needAccess=true
Chateauneuf, D., et al. 2018. The relationship between foster care families and birth families in a child welfare context: The determining factors. Child & Family Social Work, 23(1) 71-79
Esperanza, L., et al. 2017. Contact between birth parents and children in kinship care in a sample from Spain. Child & Family Social Work, 22(2) 1075-108
Humphreys, C., and Kiraly, M. 2011. High-frequency family contact: A road to nowhere for infants. Child & Family Social Work, 16(1) 1-125
Larkins, C. et al. 2015. Children’s, Young People’s and Parents’ Perspectives on Contact: Findings from the Evaluation of Social Work Practices. British Journal of Social Work, 45(1) 296-312
McWey, L., Acock, A., Porter B. 2010. The Impact of Continued Contact with Biological Parents upon the Mental Health of Children in Foster Care. Children & Youth Services Review, 32(10) 1338-1345
Moyers, S., . 2006. Contact with Family Members and its Impact on Adolescents and Their Foster Placements. The British Journal of Social Work, 36(4) 541–559
Neil, E. & Howe, D. 2004. Contact in Adoption and Permanent Foster Care. London: BAAF. https://corambaaf.org.uk/books/contact-adoption-and-permanent-foster-care
Salas Martínez, M. D., Fuentes, M. J., Bernedo, I. M., and García‐Martín, M. A. 2016. Contact visits between foster children and their birth family: the views of foster children, foster parents and social workers. Child & Family Social Work, 21(4) 473-483. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cfs.12163
Sen, R. and Broadhurst, K. 2011. Contact between children in out‐of‐home placements and their family and friends networks: a research review. Child & Family Social Work, 16(3) 298-309
Wilson, K. and Devaney, J. 2017. Promoting Contact for Children in State Care: Learning from Northern Ireland on the Development of a Framework for Assessing Contact. Child Care in Practice. DOI: 10.1080/13575279.2017.1406895
Contact and social media
Black, K. A., Moyer, A. M., & Goldberg, A. E. 2016. From face-to-face to Facebook: The role of technology and social media in adoptive family relationships with birth family members. Adoption Quarterly, 19(4) 307-332. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/10926755.2016.1217575
Fursland, E. 2013. Facing up to Facebook. London: BAAF. https://corambaaf.org.uk/books/facing-facebook
Fursland, E. 2010. Social networking and contact. London: BAAF https://corambaaf.org.uk/books/social-networking-and-contact
Greenhow, S., et al. 2017. The Maintenance of Traditional and Technological Forms of Post-Adoption Contact. Child Abuse Review, 25(5) 373-385
Greenhow, S., Hackett, S., Jones, C., & Meins, E. 2017. Adoptive family experiences of post‐adoption contact in an Internet era. Child & Family Social Work, 22(S1) 44-52. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cfs.12256
Simpson, J. 2013. Managing unregulated contact in the age of new technology. Adoption and Fostering, 37(4) 380-388
Simpson, J. E. 2016. A divergence of opinion: How those involved in child and family social work are responding to the challenges of the Internet and social media. Child & Family Social Work, 21(1) 94-102. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cfs.12114
Sibling contact
Children’s Bureau. 2013. Sibling Issues in Foster Care and Adoption. Child Welfare Information Gateway https://www.childwelfare.gov/pubs/siblingissues/index.cfm
CLAN Childlaw. (undated) Promoting Sibling Contact for Looked after Children. https://www.clanchildlaw.org/Handlers/Download.ashx?IDMF=6be66e0e-4216-4bad-979b-e5cee781c320
Cossar, J. and Neil, E. 2013. Making sense of siblings: connections and severances in post-adoption contact. Child & Family Social Work. 18(1) 67-76
Family Futures. 2009. Siblings – together or apart?, s.l.: Family Futures
Jones, C. 2016. Sibling Relationships in Adoptive and Fostering Families: A Review of the International Research Literature. Children & Society, 30(4) 324–334. https://doi.org/10.1111/CHSO.12146
Lundstrom, T. and Sallinas, M. 2012. Sibling contact among Swedish children in foster and residential care — Out of home care in a family service system. Child and Youth Services Review, 34(2) 396-402
Meakings, S., Coffey, A., and Shelton, K. H. 2017. The Influence of adoption on sibling relationships: experiences and support needs of newly formed adoptive families. The British Journal of Social Work, 47(6), 1781-1799. https://academic.oup.com/bjsw/article/47/6/1781/4554334
Monk, D. and Macvarish, J. 2018. Siblings, contact and the law: an overlooked relationship? Summary Report. London: Birkbeck. Available at: http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/siblings-contact-and-law-overlooked-relationship
Morgan, R. 2012. Adoption with siblings, Contact with parents. Office of the Children’s Rights Director http://dera.ioe.ac.uk/15501/1/REPORT%20Adoption%20of%20siblings%20and%20contact%20with%20parents.pdf
