Conversations - Dr Claire Agius, Adopter Wellbeing
About this episode
Dr Claire Agius discusses her experiences as an adoptive parent and her research on the challenges faced by adoptive parents.
Hello and welcome to this episode of conversations from the Fostering and Adoption podcast In this episode I talk to Dr Claire Agius, she is an academic and adoptive parent who has researched the challenges faced by adoptive parents. We chat about her experience as an adoptive parent and how that led to her academic research. Claire’s hope is to affect change within the system and improvements in the service that families made through adoption receive. You can read Claire's research below. Co-creating the future of post-adoption parenting and mental health support: Exploring the parenting challenges faced by adopters who raise children with trauma histories: an adapted Experience-Based Co-Design approach As always, if you’ve experience of adoption, fostering or special guardianship from any perspective personal or professional and would like share that on the podcast please get in touch through the Facebook page, BlueSky or email us at AandFpodcast@gmail.com Listen/subscribe on iTunes here Spotify here
People in this episode
Hosts: Al Coates, Scott Casson-Rennie
Guest: Dr Claire Agius
Topics covered
- adoption
- fostering
- parenting
- mental health
- wellbeing
- trauma
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Fostering and Adoption podcast, BlueSky, AandFpodcast@gmail.com
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