Maria Kroupina: Supporting Positive Mental Health Outcomes for Adoptees
Dr. Maria Kroupina, a pediatric psychologist at the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota and the director of the Birth to Three Program and the Early Child Mental Health Program, di...
12 Okt 202028min
Elsbeth Neil: Respecting Children's Relationships and Identities in Adoption
Dr. Elsbeth Neil discusses the losses that children often experience in the context of adoption and the ways that continued contact with birth family & foster carers as well as policies around residen...
5 Okt 202031min
Rachael Clemens: Experiences of First/Birth Mothers through an Information Science Lens
Dr. Rachael Clemens discusses her research, which uses an information science lens to more deeply understand the experience of first or birth mothers both before and after they make the decision to re...
28 Sep 202026min
Megan Bresnahan: Sensory Processing and Adoptees with Disabilities
Megan Bresnahan, OTR/L, an Occupational Therapist at the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota discusses her role at the interdisciplinary clinic and the value of multi-disciplinary ...
21 Sep 202013min
Sebilu Bodja & Kristi Gleason: Domestic Adoption in Ethiopia
Sebilu Bodja, MPA & Kristi Gleason, LMSW, outline Ethiopia's transition from being a sending country for international adoptions toward developing and prioritizing domestic foster care and adoption pr...
14 Sep 202045min
Francine Fishman: Adoption in Schools
Francine Fishman, LCSW, discusses what it means for educators and schools to create a culturally responsive classroom for adopted students. She provides lessons learned from her own work in training t...
7 Sep 202030min
Judith Eckerle: Adoption Medicine and the Adoption of Children with Disabilities
Judith Eckerle, MD the Director of the Adoption Medicine Clinic at the University of Minnesota, discusses the adoption of children with disabilities and medical conditions. She outlines trends in adop...
27 Aug 202017min
Emily Helder, Gretchen Wrobel, and Elisha Marr: Introducing the Routledge Handbook of Adoption
The co-editors of the Routledge Handbook of Adoption discuss how they came to be working together and their main goals in putting together the Handbook. They preview the sections of the Handbook and t...
25 Aug 202014min
