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“Do you mean, we're not the only ones?”…: Disruption - powerlessness and empowerment

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 February 2016

Cas O'Neill
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Abstract

A study of the meaning of adoption and permanent placement disruption for parents and social workers confirmed that the experience is extremely stressful over a long period of time.

Powerful themes evident through the process of the study were the influence on the placement of stress in the parents’ backgrounds; the maintenance of the family boundary; triangulation of relationships; the nature and quality of interactions between parents and social workers; relinquishment of a placed child; the immobilisation of possible support; and research as intervention.

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Children Australia , Volume 18 , Issue 2 , 1993 , pp. 13 - 17
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1993

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