Professor Bethany Lee and colleagues have a new paper published in Social Work Research.
Title: Parent, Child, and Adoption Characteristics Associated with Post-Adoption Support Needs The purpose of this study is to (a) identify whether there are meaningful subgroups of families with distinct post-adoption needs and (b) determine which parent, youth, and adoption characteristics are associated with these collections of needs. Using data from the Modern Adoptive Families study, authors conducted a three-step latent class analysis with a sample of 1,414 families who rated the importance of 16 areas of parent education and support, based on their current level of need. A five-class solution best fit the data. Lee, B.R., Wyman Battalen, A., Brodzinsky, D.M., Goldberg, A.E. (2020). Parent, Child, and Adoption Characteristics Associated with Post-Adoption Support Needs. Social Work Research 44(1): 21-32. https://doi.org/10.1093/swr/svz026