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Transracial and intercountry adoptions : cultural guidance for professionals
- Title
- Transracial and intercountry adoptions : cultural guidance for professionals / Rowena Fong and Ruth McRoy editors.
- Publication
- New York : Columbia University Press, [2016]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Book/Text | Use in library | HV875.5 .T73 2016 | Off-site |
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- Description
- x, 403 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues in the transracial and international adoption domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text details the history, policy, and service requirements relating to white, African American, Asian American, Latino and Mexican American, and Native American children and adoptive families. It addresses specific issues faced by adoptive families with children and youth from China, Russia, Ethiopia, India, Korea, and Guatemala, and offers targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma, mental health treatment, and the challenges of adoptions by gay or lesbian parents. -- from back cover.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Case studies.
- Études de cas.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction / Rowena Fong, Ruth G. McRoy, and Ann E. Schwartz -- Overview of intercountry adoptions / Rowena Fong, Ruth G. McRoy, and Hollee McGinnis -- Legal and policy issues affecting intercountry adoption practices / Karen Smith Rotabi and Carmen Mónico -- Legal and policy issues affecting transracial adoption practice / Ruth G. McRoy, Amy Griffin, and Hollee McGinnis -- Interculturally competent practice with gay and lesbian families / Devon Brooks, Doni Whitsett, and Jeremy T. Goldbach -- A neurodevelopmental perspective and clinical challenges / Bruce D. Perry, Erin Hambrick, and Robert D. Perry -- Ethnic identity formation / Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Jessical A.K. Matthews, and Xian Zhang -- Mental health issues / Amanda L. Baden, Jonathan R. Mazza, Andrew Kitchen, Elliotte Harrington, and Ebony White -- Medical issues / Dana E. Johnson and Judith K. Eckerle -- School issues / JaeRan Kim and Beth Hall -- The need for adoption-competent mental health professionals / Debbie B. Riley and Ellen C. Singer -- Conclusions / Rowen Fong and Ruth G. McRoy.
- ISBN
- 9780231172547
- 0231172540
- 9780231172554
- 0231172559
- 0231540825
- 9780231540827
- 9780231540827 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2015017338
- OCLC
- ocn908699028
- 908699028
- SCSB-1843145
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library