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British Journal of Social Work 2006 36(6):921-935; doi:10.1093/bjsw/bch363
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© The Author 2005. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The British Association of Social Workers. All rights reserved.

Recent Changes in Adoption and Fostering in Spain

Jesús Palacios and Pere Amorós

Jesús Palacios, Ph.D., is Professor of Developmental and Educational Psychology at the University of Seville. His main research interests are adoption and foster-care, with a special interest in their impact on children and families. Professor Palacios has conducted longitudinal research on both adoption and foster-care throughout Spain and especially in Andalusia. Together with David Brodzinsky, he is the editor of Psychological Issues in Adoption: Theory, Research and Applications, Wesport, CT, Greenwood (2005).

Pere Amorós, Ph.D., is Associate Professor of Special Education at the University of Barcelona. His main field of expertise is foster-care in which he has published extensively. A good amount of his work is related to professional intervention and professional training in foster-care. Prof. Amorós has co-authored training packages for prospective foster-carers and is currently involved in the development of a new set of tools for professionals working in extended family care.

Correspondence to Jesús Palacios, Facultad de Psicología, Universidad de Sevilla, Calle Camilo J. Cela s.n., 41018 Sevilla, Spain. E-mail: jp{at}us.es

As in many other countries, adoption and foster-care have seen important changes in Spain. Adoption of healthy Spanish babies has now become the exception, while special needs and inter-country adoptions have become much more common. Foster-care, in its turn, has also changed, and now there are new types of fostering arrangements and new professional practices substituting old ones. This article presents a summary of the main changes that occurred in recent years in the context of adoption and foster-care in Spain.

Keywords: child protection, adoption, foster-care.


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