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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807952903321

Titolo

Transracial and intercountry adoptions : cultural guidance for professionals / / Rowena Fong and Ruth McRoy, editors ; introduction, Rowena Fong, Ruth G. McRoy, and Ann E. Schwartz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-231-54082-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (418 pages)

Disciplina

362.734089

Soggetti

Intercountry adoption - United States

Interracial adoption - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Overview of Intercountry Adoptions -- 2. Legal and Policy Issues Affecting Intercountry Adoption Practices -- 3. Legal and Policy Issues Affecting Transracial Adoption Practice -- 4. Interculturally Competent Practice with Gay and Lesbian Families -- 5. A Neurodevelopmental Perspective and Clinical Challenges -- 6. Ethnic Identity Formation -- 7. Mental Health Issues -- 8. Medical Issues -- 9. School Issues -- 10. The Need for Adoption- Competent Mental Health Professionals -- Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions. Conclusions -- Contributors -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 process and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and techniques for navigating 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 problems 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 gay or lesbian adoptions