Clinical observations of adult intercountry adoptees and their adoptive parents.
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.
Altstein
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School of Social Work, University of Maryland at Baltimore.
Coster
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First-Hartling
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Ford
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Glasoe
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Hairston
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Kasoff
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Grier
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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