title: Clinical observations of adult intercountry adoptees and their adoptive parents.
abstract: This article presented data from interviews with 29 adult foreign-born adoptees and 23 adoptive parents, highlighting M.S.W. students' impressions of the interviewees' responses. The students' main observations stressed individualizing adoptees and their families, cautioning against falling into the all-too-easy trap of self-fulfilling labeled behavior. A second theme was the importance of each social worker's own sensitivity and attitudes toward this type of racial mixing, and emphasized professional and personal self-awareness.
authors.affiliation: School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore.
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Altstein
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coster
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: First-Hartling
authors.forename: C
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Ford
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Glasoe
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Hairston
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kasoff
authors.forename: A W
authors.initials: AW
authors.lastname: Grier
mesh_terms: D000300:Adoption / Q000208:ethnology / Q000523:psychology*; D000328:Adult; D001208:Asia / Q000208:ethnology; D001290:Attitude; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012944:Social Support; D012947:Social Work; D014481:United States