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About ASPIRE Framework

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ASPIRE Framework (Adoption Separation Psychological Impact & Resilience Evaluation) is a structured, adoption-informed framework for understanding and evaluating the enduring psychological impact of preverbal separation from mother and subsequent adoption-related experiences across the lifespan. It integrates psychological theory, trauma-informed practice, lived experience and emerging research.

PISA Instrument Development

The Preverbal Infant Separation Assessment (PISA) is an assessment instrument being developed within the ASPIRE Framework to examine the psychological impact of adoption separation across the lifespan. Following initial development and adoptee review, ASIP is progressing through staged review and future psychometric validation.

PISA within the Framework

PISA sits within the broader ASPIRE Framework, providing a structured means of examining patterns of psychological impact associated with adoption separation and subsequent adoption-related experiences. Its development remains distinct from the broader educational and research functions of ASPIRE.

Research & Resources

PISA Insights

Details regarding the ongoing developments and academic work concerning the PISA project will be shared here soon.

Research Library

Research informing the ongoing development of ASPIRE Framework will be brought together here, alongside future ASPIRE research, publications and supporting materials.

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Educational Resources

Educational materials supporting understanding of adoption separation and the ASPIRE Framework will be added here as they become available.

Explore Resources

Could This Be Adoption?

A private guided reflection for adult adoptees exploring whether something they are experiencing now may connect with their adoption experience.

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ASPIRE Foundational Framework Manual

A foundational framework for understanding the psychological and lived impacts of adoption separation, bringing together adoptee experience, research and trauma-informed understanding.

Available now!

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ASPIRE is being independently developed to create adoptee-informed resources, workshops and tools grounded in lived experience, psychological theory and trauma-informed practice.

Your support will help fund the next stage of development and bring these resources to more adoptees.

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Whether you are an adoptee, practitioner, organisation, researcher or potential partner, you are welcome to get in touch.

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