Katherine Shelton
Biographic Data
| ID | 6025780 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Katherine Shelton |
| GIVEN NAMES | Katherine |
| FAMILY NAME | Shelton |
| SIGNATURE | SHELTON K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Cardiff University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The prevalence of mental health disorders amongst care-experienced young people in the UK
Can Genomics Remove Uncertainty from Adoption? Social Workers’ and Medical Advisors’ Accounts of Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is controversial in adoption with professionals taking different positions on whether children should be protected from genetic information or whether it can be used to assist adoption. In this article, we argue that advances in ‘genome-wide’ testing add further complications to these debates. Although next-generation sequencing (NGS) and microarray-based technologies can offer high-quality molecular diagnoses for a variety of con…
Rights and Relationships of Children who are Adopted from Care
The rights of children who are adopted in England and Wales, their birth parents, siblings and extended family, and their adoptive parents are considered in this article. This includes the rights of parents and children regarding consent to adoption; their rights to post-adoption contact; children’s rights to develop an understanding of their identity as an adopted person; and adopters’ rights to support in helping their children – in the framewo…
The legal and administrative processes in adoption
The early stages of adoptive placements are important in achieving successful long-term outcomes for adopted children and their families. This paper reports on findings from the Wales Adoption Study, in which adoptive parents shared their views and experiences of the legal and administrative processes in obtaining an adoption order. Parents described a range of difficulties that added to anxieties and delays. These arose mainly through poor commu…
Care-leavers and their children placed for adoption
Doctor, builder, soldier, lawyer, teacher, dancer, shopkeeper, vet
An interest in a medical career, unlike high prestige jobs in general, is not associated with higher educational attainment or cognitive ability, and it is likely that only one in ten of the children interested in medical careers will have sufficient educational attainment at GCSE or A-level to be able to enter medical school
II. Study 1
Care-leavers and their children placed for adoption
Rights and Relationships of Children who are Adopted from Care
The rights of children who are adopted in England and Wales, their birth parents, siblings and extended family, and their adoptive parents are considered in this article. This includes the rights of parents and children regarding consent to adoption; their rights to post-adoption contact; children’s rights to develop an understanding of their identity as an adopted person; and adopters’ rights to support in helping their children – in the framewo…
The legal and administrative processes in adoption
The early stages of adoptive placements are important in achieving successful long-term outcomes for adopted children and their families. This paper reports on findings from the Wales Adoption Study, in which adoptive parents shared their views and experiences of the legal and administrative processes in obtaining an adoption order. Parents described a range of difficulties that added to anxieties and delays. These arose mainly through poor commu…
II. Study 1
Doctor, builder, soldier, lawyer, teacher, dancer, shopkeeper, vet
An interest in a medical career, unlike high prestige jobs in general, is not associated with higher educational attainment or cognitive ability, and it is likely that only one in ten of the children interested in medical careers will have sufficient educational attainment at GCSE or A-level to be able to enter medical school
The legal and administrative processes in adoption
The early stages of adoptive placements are important in achieving successful long-term outcomes for adopted children and their families. This paper reports on findings from the Wales Adoption Study, in which adoptive parents shared their views and experiences of the legal and administrative processes in obtaining an adoption order. Parents described a range of difficulties that added to anxieties and delays. These arose mainly through poor commu…
Care-leavers and their children placed for adoption
Rights and Relationships of Children who are Adopted from Care
The rights of children who are adopted in England and Wales, their birth parents, siblings and extended family, and their adoptive parents are considered in this article. This includes the rights of parents and children regarding consent to adoption; their rights to post-adoption contact; children’s rights to develop an understanding of their identity as an adopted person; and adopters’ rights to support in helping their children – in the framewo…
Can Genomics Remove Uncertainty from Adoption? Social Workers’ and Medical Advisors’ Accounts of Genetic Testing
Genetic testing is controversial in adoption with professionals taking different positions on whether children should be protected from genetic information or whether it can be used to assist adoption. In this article, we argue that advances in ‘genome-wide’ testing add further complications to these debates. Although next-generation sequencing (NGS) and microarray-based technologies can offer high-quality molecular diagnoses for a variety of con…
The prevalence of mental health disorders amongst care-experienced young people in the UK
Psychology (6 works) · Child Welfare and Adoption (4 works) · Medicine (4 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Family Dynamics and Relationships (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Public relations (2 works) · Social Psychology (2 works)