This is part of the School of Education and Childhood Studies Research Seminar series for the Academic Year 2017-2018

This seminar is specifically linked to The Mice Hub (Mental Health in Childhood and Education); please click on the following link for further details: http://www.port.ac.uk/school-of-education-and-childhood-studies/research/mental-health-in-childhood-and-education-hub/

Dr Rachael Stryker, Associate Professor, Dept of Human Development & Women's Studies, California State University, East Bay

Research Seminar: The Value of Multi-sited Ethnography for Researching and Informing Effective Adoption Education in the United States

Abstract: This talk summarizes the results of a ten-year, multi-sited ethnographic project that used qualitative research along Russian-U.S. adoption pipelines to effectively inform adoption education programs for parents in California. Topics discussed include the importance of translating the geopolitics of adoption regions to prospective adoptive parents; centering a cross-cultural understanding of attachment socialization and expression within the adoption process; and focusing on how individual and holistic well-being of post-adoptive family members can be achieved.