Document Type
Honors Thesis
Abstract
Birthmothers can experience long-term issues long after placing their child for adoption including mental health issues, separation grief, sadness, anger, depression, suicidality, and anxiety. The lack of services post-adoption could be detrimental to their overall health. The objective of this study was to learn what adoption agencies provided to birthmothers post-adoption, and to learn if the services provided are meeting best-practice recommendations. The desired sample consists of a population of fifty adoption agencies in the Dallas-Forth Worth metroplex. The sampling frame used to construct the population consisted of “adoption agencies” and “Dallas-Fort Worth” keywords. A survey was used that provided the adoption agency with some multiple choice and open-ended questions concerning services being offered to birthmothers post-adoption. Data were collected through website searches, phone interviews, and e-mails. The findings from this research study illuminate what is being offered to birthmothers post-adoption by adoption agencies regarding their mental health.
Publication Date
5-1-2019
Language
English
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.
Recommended Citation
Mullenax, Amber, "BIRTHMOTHERS: SERVICES PROVIDED POST-ADOPTION" (2019). 2019 Spring Honors Capstone Projects. 9.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/honors_spring2019/9