Handbook of adoption : implications for researchers, practitioners, and families /

'Handbook of Adoption' addresses topics in adoption that reflect the many dimensions of theory, research, development, race adjustment and clinical practice which can affect adoption triad members.

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Bibliographic Details
Online Access: Full text (MCPHS users only)
Corporate Authors: Sage Publications, Sage eReference (Online service)
Other Authors: Javier, Rafael Art
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 2007
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Breaking the seal : taking adoption issues to the academic and professional communities / Rafael A. Javier [and others]
  • Toward a sociology of adoption : historical deconstruction / Dawn Esposito and Frank A. Biafora
  • Adoption data and statistical trends / Frank A. Biafora and Dawn Esposito
  • A legal history of adoption and ongoing legal challenges / Madelyn Freundlich
  • Developmental challenges for adoptees across the life cycle / Michael F. McGinn
  • Adoptive identity : how contexts within and beyond the family shape developmental pathways / Harold D. Grotevant [and others]
  • The cultural-racial identity model : a theoretical framework for studying transracial adoptees / Amanda L. Baden and Robbie J. Steward
  • Putting culture into context : the impact of attitudes toward the adoption of Chinese adoptees / Amanda L. Baden
  • Moving beyond the controversy of the transracial adoption of black and biracial children / Rhonda M. Roorda
  • International adoption of Latin American children : psychological adjustment, cultural, and legal issues / Alina Camacho-Gingerich [and others]
  • From the ashes of war : lessons from the 50 years of Korean international adoption / Hollee A. McGinnis.
  • Open adoptions : longitudinal outcomes for the adoption triad / Ruth G. McRoy [and others]
  • Single-parent adoptions and clinical implications / Behnaz Pakizegi
  • The special needs of special-needs adoptees and their families / Elizabeth J. Keagy and Barbara A. Rall
  • Double stigma : the impact of adoption issues on lesbian and gay adoptive parents / Carol Anderson Boyer
  • The importance of kinship relationships for children in foster care / Kathleen M. Doyle
  • School issues and adoption : academic considerations and adaptation / Francine Fishman and Elliotte Sue Harrington
  • Variations in clinical issues for children adopted as infants and those adopted as older children / Joyce Maguire Pavao
  • Counseling adoption triad members : making a case for adoption training for counselors and clinical psychologists / Theresa Kennedy Porch
  • Psychologists' self-reported adoption knowledge and the need for more adoption education / Daniel A. Sass and Douglas B. Henderson
  • Research contributions : strengthening services for members of the adoption triad / Madelyn Freundlich
  • Birth mothers and subsequent children : the role of personality traits and attachment history / Mary Jo Carr
  • Identity, psychological adjustment, culture, and race : issues for transracial adoptees and the cultural-racial identity model / Amanda L. Baden
  • Adoptees' and birth parents' therapeutic experiences related to adoption / Douglas B. Henderson, Daniel A. Sass and Jeanna Carlson (née Webster).
  • Why has the mental health community been silent on adoption issues? / Douglas B. Henderson
  • The inner life of the adopted child : adoption, trauma, loss, fantasy, search, and reunion / Betty Jean Lifton
  • Birth parents in adoption : using research to inform practice / Amanda L. Baden and Mary O'Leary Wiley
  • Relinquishment as a critical variable in the treatment of the adoptees / Ronald J. Nydam
  • Psychoanalytic understanding and treatment of the adoptee / Christopher Deeg
  • Psychic homelessness related to reactive attachment disorder : Dutch adult foreign adoptees struggling with their identity / René Hoksbergen and Jan ter Laak
  • "I don't know you" : transference and countertransference paradigms with adoptees / Janet Rivkin Zuckerman and Betty Buchsbaum
  • Reflections / Penny Callan Partridge, Christian Langworthy and Sarah Saffian
  • The future of adoption : a call to action / Frank A. Biafora [and others].