Handbook of Adoption Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families [Paperback]

Although most mental health and behavioral health professionals have encountered adoption triad membersbirth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted personsin their clinical practice, the vast majority have had no formal or informal training on adoption issues. The Handbook of Adoption is the first text designed for mental health practitioners to specifically address the many dimensions of adoption-related issues which can and do affect adoption triad members, specifically in the United States.Although most mental health and behavioral health professionals have encountered adoption triad membersbirth parents, adoptive parents, and adopted personsin their clinical practice, the vast majority have had no formal or informal training on adoption issues. The Handbook of Adoption is the first text designed for mental health practitioners to specifically address the many dimensions of adoption-related issues which can and do affect adoption triad members, specifically in the United States. Unique and refreshing in its total inclusion of the entire adoption triad experience, the book strongly supports more fully incorporating the needs of this special population in psychotherapy and social work degree programs. P.M. Salela, University of Illinois, SpringfieldForeword - David Brodzinsky
1. Breaking the Seal: Taking Adoption Issues to the Academic and Professional Communities - Rafael A. Javier, Douglas B. Henderson, Amanda L. Baden, Frank Biafora, and Alina Camacho-Gingerich
Part I: Foundation - Frank Biafora
2. Toward a Sociology of Adoption: Historical Deconstruction - Dawn Esposito and Frank Biafora
3. Adoption Data and Statistical Trends - Frank Biafora and Dawn Esposito
4. A Legal Hisotry of Adoption and Ongoing Legal Challenges - Madelyn Freundlich
Part II: Theoretical Issues in Adoption - Rafael A. Javier
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