Building secure futures: Longitudinal evidence on attachment in adoption

The longitudinal study was a collaboration with Anna Freud, Coram and Great Ormond Street Hospital.

Event Replay

Hear from researchers, practitioners, and policymakers about the 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.

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• 00:00 – Welcome with Dame Carol Homden
• 06:14 –  Overview of the Adoption and Attachment Study
• 44:30 – Attachment Stability in Early and Late Adopted Children: Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adulthood
• 01:37:35 – Thematic Analysis of the Life Stories of Early and Late-Placed Adoptees
• 02:21:17 – Charting Parenting Change in Adoptive Families: Longitudinal Evidence on Parenting in Adoption
• 03:06:07 – Implications for Practice, Services and Policy

Event speakers included:

• 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