Join researchers, practitioners, and policymakers to hear findings from the three phases of this 25-year longitudinal adoption study, focusing on attachment, identity and developmental outcomes from childhood to early adulthood, alongside adoptive parents’ experiences.
The longitudinal study was a collaboration with Anna Freud, Coram and Great Ormond Street Hospital.
Speakers include:
- Dr Saul Hillman: Senior Research Fellow, Child Attachment Psychological Therapies, Anna Freud Centre & Honorary Lecturer, UCL
- Dr Miriam Steele: Professor in Psychology, New School for Social Research, Psychology, based in New York
- Jeanne Kaniuk OBE: Formerly Adoption Manager, Coram
- Dr Emily Blackshaw: Senior Research Manager, Research Impact and Evaluation Team, Coram Institute for Children
- Dr Naomi Bartle: Research Manager, Research Impact and Evaluation Team, Coram Institute for Children
- Jenny Kenrick: Formerly Consultant Child Psychotherapist Adoption, Fostering and Kinship Care team, Tavistock Clinic
- Sibilla Robutti: Researcher, Research, Impact and Evaluation Team, Coram Institute for Children
Acknowledgement of generous funders of this longitudinal research:
Phase 1
- Sainsbury’s Family Trusts: The Tedworth Charitable Trust, The Headley Trust
Phase 2
- The Big Lottery
- Sir Halley Stewart Trust
Phase 3
- Coram
- Julia Ridgway
- Val Molloy
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