Researchers conducted a randomized controlled trial designed to test the cost-effectiveness of support programmes for adopters who were parenting a child recently placed from care, and displaying emotional or behavioural difficulties. The findings suggested that a home-based parenting programme for adopters resulted in positive changes in parenting satisfaction and less negative parenting approaches, when measured up to six months after receiving the intervention.
Source: Alan Rushton and Elizabeth Monck, Enhancing Adoptive Parenting: A randomised controlled trial of adoption support, Research Report RBX-19-08, Department for Children, Schools and Families (0845 602 2260)
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Date: 2009-Jan