Child Adolesc Ment Health
February 2006
After describing the common problems of children placed for adoption from local authority care and the views and concerns of adopters as recipients of services, the article describes two contrasting interventions designed to enhance new adopters' parenting skills and understanding. Aspects covered are the empirical and theoretical justifications for the interventions, the process of manualisation and the plan to evaluate the effectiveness of the interventions in a randomised controlled trial.
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