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Adoption Awareness: Evaluation of a National Level Training Program for Pregnancy Counselors

by Children and Youth Research Services

352 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-2439; ISBN 1-4120-7544-0; US$27.67, C$31.82, EUR22.73, £15.91

Adoption-awareness training is effective and should be required in all Public Health, Social Service and allied Health programs for pregnant women.

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This report is about communicating adoption as an option to pregnant clients on an equal basis with parenting and abortion. Adoption is undervalued, underused, and poorly understood by many who counsel pregnant clients. The Children's Health Act of 2000 requires that training be established to prepare counselors in health care and allied settings to acquire information about adoption and to develop skill in communicating adoption to pregnant women in a non-directive manner. Prior to the Adoption-Awareness Training Initiative if clients didn't ask about adoption, the topic was not discussed. Little thought was given to the possibility that thousands of pregnant women might lack sufficient knowledge about adoption to ask.

Our evaluation of adoption-awareness training covers a period of 3 years (2001-2004), and includes information collected from 13,000 trainees in 900 sites across the United States. Included in this report are modules and exercises designed to promote skill in communicating adoption using a variety of non-directive Rogerian techniques such as Reflection, Questioning, Clarification, and Summarization.

Evaluation results are consistent in documenting that adoption-awareness training is needed in health settings, as well as in allied social service and school programs.

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About the Author

Edmund V. Mech, MSW, Ph.D. Evaluation Director for the Adoption-Awareness Training Project. Contributors to the final report include:

Jeannie Gilbert, MS

Matthew Hall, MS

Elaine Hanson, BA

Laura Jensen, BA

Isaac Krig, BA

Elizabeth Leonard, MSW

Charles Marquardt, BA

Elisa Claasen, BA

Heather Rosman, BA

For more information, please visit www.mechrsch.org

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