Transracial and Intercountry Adoptions

Cultural Guidance for Professionals
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-231-17255-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 424 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 229 mm x 155 mm, Gewicht: 564 g

With essays by well-known adoption practitioners and researchers who source empirical research and practical knowledge, this volume recounts the day-to-day realities of the transracial and international adoption process. It addresses key developmental, cultural, health, and behavioral issues and provides recommendations for avoiding fraud and coercion and techniques for navigating domestic and foreign adoption laws. The text is wholly inclusive, detailing 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. Dedicated to advancing greater cultural sensitivity and coordinated care, this text provides targeted guidance on ethnic identity formation, trauma, mental health treatment, the challenges of gay or lesbian adoptions, and a host of other issues not addressed in other volumes.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Fong, Rowena

McRoy, Ruth

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Familiensoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik: Familie, Kinder, Jugendliche

Inhaltsverzeichnis

ForewordAcknowledgmentsIntroduction, by Rowena Fong, Ruth McRoy and Ann Schwartz1. Overview of Intercountry Adoptions, by "Rowena Fong, Ruth McRoy, and Hollee McGinnis"2. Legal and Policy Issues Impacting Intercountry Adoption Practices, by Karen Rotabi and Carmen Monico3. Overview of and Legal and Policy Issues Impacting Transracial Adoptions, by Ruth McRoy, Amy Griffin and Hollee McGinnis4. Interculturally Competent Practice with Gay and Lesbian Families, by Devon Brooks, Doni Whitsett, and Jeremy T. Goldbach5. A Neurodevelopmental Perspective and Clinical Challenges, by Bruce Perry, Erin Hambrick and Robert Perry6. Ethnic Identity Formation, by Ellen E. Pinderhughes, Jessica A. K. Matthews, Xian Zhang7. Mental Health Issues, by Amanda L. Baden, Jonathan R. Mazza, Andrew Kitchen, Elliotte Harrington, and Ebony White8. Medical Issues, by Dana E. Johnson and Judith K. Eckerle9. School Issues, by Jae Ran Kim and Beth Hall10. The Need for Adoption Competent Mental Health Professionals, by Debbie Riley and Ellen SingerList of ContributorsIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Rowena Fong is the Ruby Lee Piester Centennial Professor in Services to Children and Families in the School of Social Work at the University of Texas at Austin and Member of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare. Her most recent book is Addressing Racial Disproportionality and Disparities in Human Services: Multisystemic Approaches.

Ruth McRoy holds the Donahue and DiFelice Endowed Professorship at the Boston College School of Social Work. Her research and writing has focused on such topics as open adoptions, racial identity development, transracial adoptions, and adoptions from foster care, and she is a coauthor of Transracial and Inracial Adoptees: The Adolescent Years, Openness in Adoption: Exploring Family Connections, and Special Needs Adoptions: Practice Issues.