Clinical and practice issues in adoption : bridging the gap between adoptees placed as infants and as older children

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    • Groza, Victor
    • Rosenberg, Karen F.

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Clinical and practice issues in adoption : bridging the gap between adoptees placed as infants and as older children

written and edited by Victor Groza and Karen F. Rosenberg

Bergin & Garvey, c2001

Rev. and updated

  • : pbk

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Clinical and practice issues in adoption : revised and updated

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Description

Experts representing practitioners, researchers, advocates, and triad members, explore the similarities and differences between adoptees placed as infants and as older children. The book promotes better integration of theory, practice, policy, and research in working with clients who are members of the adoption triad: adoptees, birth parents, and adoptive families. For the first time, the separate practice areas are bridged, pointing out the significant overlap between the two populations and the similar interventions that can be used when working with adoptees regardless of their age at placement. Developed as a resource text for practitioners, researchers, students, and adoptive triad members, the first chapter provides an overview of the clinical and practice issues. Next the work presents issues surrounding infertility, and explores identity development with a following chapter on search and reunion issues. The fifth chapter discusses adoption support, both historically and with current developments and issues. The work then examines ethics and offers a model for ethical adoption practice. The seventh chapter explores treatment issues from a family systems perspective. Chapter 8 discusses the issues in transracial adoptions, examining history, policy, research and practice. The final chapter offers an analysis of international adoption, one of the modes of adoption that has expanded greatly over the last 10 years.

Table of Contents

Treatment Issues of Adoptees Placed as Infants and as Older Children: Similarities and Differences by Victor Groza and Karen F. Rosenberg Infertility and Adoption by Regina Kupecky and Karen J. Anderson Shared Identity Issues for Adoptees by Betty Jean Lifton Search and Reunion Issues by Jayne Schooler The History, Elements, and Ongoing Need for Adoption Support by Rita Laws Ethics in Contemporary American Adoption Practice by L. Anne Babb Treatment Issues in Adoption Practice from a Triad and Systemic Perspective by Joyce Maguire Pavao, Victor Groza, and Karen F. Rosenberg Transracial Adoptions by Karen F. Rosenberg, Kelli Steele Adams, and Victor Groza International Adoptions by Victor Groza, Lindsey Houlihan, and Karen F. Rosenberg Index

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