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Emily Helder

Adoption Roundtable: Parenting Stress in Adoptive Families Adoption & Foster CareChildhood AdversityPodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable: Parenting Stress in Adoptive Families

Season 1, Episode 22: Dr. Marta Santos Nunes describes the research on parenting stress among adoptive families. She identifies ways that parental factors, such as expectations and parental warmth, and child characteristics, such as behavioral challenges and age, interact in complex ways to predict parenting…
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February 8, 2021
Adoption Roundtable: Transracial adoptees: the rewards and challenges of searching for their birth parents Adoption & Foster CarePodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable: Transracial adoptees: the rewards and challenges of searching for their birth parents

Season 1, Episode 21: Dr. Danielle Godon-Decoteau describes her research in the area of search and reunion with birth/first family among adult transracial adoptees. She begins by outlining the range of perspectives and thoughts that transracial adoptees have about searching and the factors, both macro…
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February 1, 2021
Adoption Roundtable: Speech Language Development in Adopted Children Adoption & Foster CareChildhood AdversityPodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable: Speech Language Development in Adopted Children

Season 1, Episode 20: Dr. Sharon Glennen describes her research examining speech language outcomes among adopted children. She discusses the complex interactions between genetic and environmental factors in language development and how they explain the variability of outcomes among adoptees as well as serve as…
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January 18, 2021
Adoption Roundtable Podcast: Adoptive Microaggressions Adoption & Foster CarePodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable Podcast: Adoptive Microaggressions

Season 1, Episode 17: Dr. Karin Garber describes her research on adoptive microaggressions, beginning by outlining ways that stigma and stereotypes about members of the adoption kinship network can lead to intentional or unintentional negative messages that can be communicated through behavioral, verbal, and environmental…
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December 14, 2020
Adoption Roundtable Podcast: Adoption in the Context of Natural Disaster Adoption & Foster CareChildhood AdversityPodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable Podcast: Adoption in the Context of Natural Disaster

Season 1, Episode 15: Dr. Peter Selman, an expert in adoption policy and demographic trends in adoption, discusses the structural factors that lead to changing trends in international adoption. He then focuses on international adoptions that occur in the context of natural disasters or political…
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November 30, 2020
Adoption Roundtable Podcast: Anne Atkinson & Debbie Riley: Training of Adoption Competent Mental Health Practitioners Adoption & Foster CareMental Health PolicyPodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable Podcast: Anne Atkinson & Debbie Riley: Training of Adoption Competent Mental Health Practitioners

Season 1, Episode 14: Dr. Anne Atkinson, president and founder of PolicyWorks, Ltd. & Debbie Riley, LCMFT, CEO of the Center for Adoption Support and Education, discuss the importance of providing adoption competent mental health care to all members of the adoption triad. They begin…
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November 16, 2020
Adoption Roundtable Podcast: A Nationally Representative Comparison of Black and White Adoptive Parents of Black Adoptees Adoption & Foster CarePodcast & Radio Interviews

Adoption Roundtable Podcast: A Nationally Representative Comparison of Black and White Adoptive Parents of Black Adoptees

Season 1, Episode 13: Dr. Elizabeth Raleigh discusses the work that she and Dr. Rose Kreider have been doing in developing a demographic understanding of White and Black adoptive parents of Black children using US Census data. She highlights the lack of nationally representative research…
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November 9, 2020