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Have you, or someone you know, adopted a child in the past 5 years?
With three adopted siblings, adoption is special to me, too.
My name is Erica Raisanen, and I am a doctoral student at the University of Southern Mississippi. I am studying the experiences and resiliency of adoptive parents in hopes to gain a better understanding of factors that contribute to a successful adoption experience. I hope to collect information that will help to improve counseling interventions aimed at preparing, and assisting, adoptive parents for, and with, adoptive parenthood.
*I am looking for parents who:
▪Have participated in at least one legal adoption (not a kinship adoption) since 2006
▪Have at least one adopted child currently age 17 or younger
▪Have not previously participated in this study
▪Have not had a significant other already participate in this study
Will you contribute and help me make a difference for adoption?
If you or someone you know meet the criteria for this project, please consider participating in or spreading the word about my research project. Your privacy is important to us so all responses will be anonymous. Please visit the link below by either clicking on it or copying and pasting it into your web browser.
[url]http://www.psychsurveys.org/erica_raisanen/successful_adoption_experience[/url]
It should take about 30 minutes, and you may choose to discontinue participation at any time. For every survey completed, a $1 donation will be made to The Gift of Adoption Fund, which helps adoptive parents fund their adoptions via grants.
The University of Southern Mississippis Institutional Review Board has approved this study. If you have any questions, please contact the primary researcher, Erica Raisanen, by phone at 601-297-3403 or via e-mail erica.raisanen@eagles.usm.edu or my faculty supervisor, Dr. Bonnie Nicholson via e-mail bonnie.nicholson@usm.edu or by phone at 601-266-4598.
Thank you very much for your time and consideration in participating in or spreading the word about my research project.
*Please consider helping me get the word out about my research project by reposting or sharing this message on your facebook page, emailing others you know who may be able to help spread the word, or posting to any other online website you may have. I would greatly appreciate your help with my project.
Sincerely,
Erica Raisanen
Counseling Psychology Doctoral Student
The University of Southern Mississippi
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Millie,Thanks for making me aware of this issue. Did you click the small box indicating your consent? Sometimes if that small piece is missed, you will not be able to move to the next page. Please let me know if you have any questions or I can assist in you in any other way. Thanks for your willingness to help me!~Erica
Good morning all,I would like to post a friendly reminder about my project. I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider participating in my project (by completing my survey) to help me gain a better understanding of the adoption experience. Also, I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider sharing my survey with other adoptive parents you may know to help me spread the word to reach out to more adoptive parents in order to gain their perspectives!Thank you!Erica
Hello, I finished the survey. I'm a single parent and page 9 seem to be geared towards couples. There was no option to skip the questions... I answered as honestly as possible, but they were sorta hard to answer being a single parent.
AdoptedKidsBigSis
Good morning all, I would like to post a friendly reminder about my project. I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider participating in my project (by completing my survey) to help me gain a better understanding of the adoption experience. Also, I would greatly appreciate it if you would consider sharing my survey with other adoptive parents you may know to help me spread the word to reach out to more adoptive parents in order to gain their perspectives!Thank you!Erica
Fe2002: First, thank you for completing the survey! And I apologize that the questions on page 9 were difficult. I did not intend for them to be aimed at couples. Unfortunately, I have to use established questions so the authors of those set of questions did not word their items to encompass everyone. I'll see what I can do for the future. Thank you for making me aware of this! P.S. I commend you for all you do! I know raising a child is difficult! Best of luck!~Erica
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