Losing control in pre-adoption services: Finnish prospective adoptive parents emotional experiences of vulnerability

This article argues that the institutional context of pre-adoption services in inter-country adoptions fosters straining emotions in prospective adoptive parents through controlling practices, thus putting clients in a vulnerable situation. The article analyses the power and emotions involved in the...

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Main Author: Pia K Eriksson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Social Work & Society 2016-07-01
Series:Social Work and Society
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Online Access:https://ejournals.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/index.php/sws/article/view/460