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