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Handbook of adoption : implications for researchers, practitioners, and families / [edited by] Rafael A. Javier [and others] ; preface by David Brodzinsky

Published
Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, [2007]
Copyright Date
©2007
Physical Description
1 online resource (xvi, 563 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Javier, Rafael Art, Sage Publications, and Sage eReference (Online service)
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Language Note
English.
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)., and 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].
Summary
'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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ISBN
1412976634
9781412976633
9781441655059 (electronic bk.)
1441655050 (electronic bk.)
9781452206424
1452206422
1322305706
9781322305707
1782689389
9781782689386
1483350746
9781483350745
1412927501 (cloth)
9781412927505 (cloth)
141292751X (pbk.)
9781412927512 (pbk.)
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 538-542) and index.
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