Counseling and Social/Government Policy
Addressing
Psycho-Social Implications in Social Policy: The Case of Adoption
and Early Intervention Strategies.
A Research Paper submitted in partial fulfilment
of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Public Policy
at Victoria University of Wellington by Ann Weaver, Victoria
University 1999
( this paper is now available
if you Google the name and then downlaod the document)
Adoption
as an Option forUnmarried Pregnant Teens
Marcia Custer, Adolescence, Winter 1993
Adoption
in Clinical Psychology: A Review of the Absence, Ramifications,
and Recommendations for Change
Diana E. Post, Behavioral Science, 2004
Birth
Parents in Adoption: Research, Practice, and Counseling Psychology
Mary OLeary Wiley / Independent Practice
& Amanda L. Baden / Montclair State UniversityThe Counseling
Psychologist, Vol. 33, No. 1, 13-50 (2005)
Challenging
the Silence of the Mental Health Community on Adoption Issues
Henderson D.B, Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless,
Volume 11, Number 2, April 2002
Choose
Life License Plates
Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, August
1, 2006.
Crisis
Pregnancy Centers Seek to Increase Political Clout, Secure Government
Subsidy
Vitoria Lin and Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public
Policy, Number 2, 2002.
Congressional
Research Service; Teen Pregnancy Prevention
by Carmen Solomon-Fears
"President Bush's FY2004 budget included
$10 million for maternity group
homes. Also, in the 108th Congress, S. 476 (the CARE Act of 2003),
as
amended and passed by the Senate on April 9, 2003, includes $33
million
for maternity group homes for FY2003 and such sums as may be necessary
for FY2004 . President Bush's FY2005 budget again includes $10
million for
maternity group homes ."2005
Family
Planning and Adoption Promotion: New Proposals, Long-Standing
Issues
Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy,
October 1999.
A
Comparison of Subsidized Guardianship and Child Welfare Adoptive
Families Served by the Illinois Adoption and Guardianship Preservation
Program
findings overall suggest subsidized guardianship is a viable
permanency arrangement
Jeanne A. Howard PhD, Susan Livingston Smith MSW, Diane L. Zosky,
Kim Woodman, Journal of Social Service Research
Infant
Abandonment
Guttmacher Institute, State Policies in Brief, August 1,
2006
The
Inadequacies in U.S. and Dutch Adoption Law to Establish Same-Sex
Couples
As Legal Parents: A Call for Recognizing Intentional Parenthood
Nancy G. Maxwell , Caroline J. Forder
Family Law Quarterly , Volume 38, p. 623-662 Fall 2004
[Symposium on International Law]
SSRN
Legislating
Against Arousal: The Growing Divide Between Federal Policy and Teenage
Sexual Behavior
By Cynthia Dailard,
Guttmacher Policy Review
Summer
2006, Volume 9, Number 3
Of
Apples and Trees: Adoption and Informed Consent
Ellen Wertheimer, Villanova Law/Public Policy Research Paper No.
2006-25
Quinnipiac Law Review, Vol. 25, 2007
Orientations
of Pregnancy Counselors Toward Adoption: Summary Narrative
By Edmund V. Mech, Ph.D. & Elizabeth L.
Leonard, M.S.W.
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
(and
then an intertesting discussion here)
Out
of Compliance? Implementing the Infant Adoption Awareness Act
Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy,
August 2004.
Parens
Patriarchy: Adoption, Eugenics, and Same-Sex Couples
Kari Hong, California Western Law Review, Vol. 40, No.
1, 2003
Survey
1000
Trackers International, 2002.
The
Drive to Enact Infant Abandonment Laws--A Rush to
Judgment?
Cynthia Dailard, The Guttmacher Report on Public Policy,
August 2000.
(please note: there are five
parts to this, links continue on the bottom)
The
Life Cycle of Birthparents: Future Directions for Counseling Psychologists.
Wiley, Mary O'Leary; Baden, Amanda L.
The
Judges Page:
a publication of National CASA in partnership with The National
Council of Juvenile and Family Court Judges.2005
Time
and Temporalization in Pregnancy Test Counselling
Anthony T. Carter, University of Rochester,
NY
Time
to Decide? The Laws Governing Mothers' Consents to the Adoption
of Their Newborn Infants
Samuels, Elizabeth J.,Tennessee Law Review, Vol. 72,
p. 509, 2005
Understanding
Adoptive Families
An Integrative Review of Empirical Research and Future Directions
for Counseling Psychology
Karen M. O'Brien ,Kathy P. Zamostny, The Counseling Psychologist,
Vol. 31, No. 6, 679-710 (2003)
Unintended
Consequences: Safe Haven Laws are Causing Problems,
Not Solving Them
Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute, March 10, 2003.
U.S./EUROPEAN
SUMMIT ON MISSING &EXPLOITED CHILDREN
The Past, the Present, and the Future
Mohamed Y. Mattar, S.J.D.,Buonas, Switzerland 2005