Research
Title: A study of bodily impacts on foster/adoptive parents within their attachment relationships with their children who live with preverbal trauma
This project is ethically approved by Goldsmiths, University of London.
The Aim of the Research
This research aims to find out how foster/adoptive parents who foster/adopt children with preverbal trauma backgrounds have been experiencing their parenthood bodily with their children at home, school, or any other social settings. I aim to bring foster/adoptive parents’ lived experiences to a voice and impacts on their bodies into the research field of creative arts psychotherapies. This inquiry will provide the basis for a future field study of fostered / adopted children in a creative therapy session and perhaps influence the provisions of the policy or/and system.
I am in the process of analysing the gathered data from the interviewed foster parents. After calling for focus groups for the foster parents and creative arts therapists, I will summarise my findings in an article and this will be published in 2026.
Confidentiality
Confidentiality will be maintained in relation to the interview content. Once transcribed, recordings will be erased. Transcriptions will have no identifying details and will be stored in password-protected files, to be deleted after 7 years. Any information that might identify you as a participant will be anonymised; that is all names and identifying features will be changed.
This research project is funded by the Hanny Exiner Memorial Foundation.
