Foreword - 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
5. Developmental Challenges for Adoptees Across the Lifecycle -
Michael McGinn
6. Adoptive Identity: How Contexts Within and Beyond the Family
Shape Developmental Pathways - Harold D. Grotevant, Nora Dunbar,
Julie K. Kohler, and Amy M. Lash Esau
7. The Cultural-Racial Identity Model: A Theoretical Framework for
Studying Transracial Adoptees - Amanda L. Baden and Robbie J.
Steward
8. Putting Culture Into Context: The Impact of Attitudes Toward the
Adoption of Chinese Adoptees - Amanda L. Baden
Part III: Transracial and International Adoption - Amanda L.
Baden
9. Moving Beyond the Controversy of the Transracial Adoption of
Black and Biracial Children - Rhonda Roorda
10. International Adoption of Latin American Children:
Psychololgical Adjustment, Cultural, and Legal Issues - Alina
Camacho-Gingerich, Susan Branco, Rafael A. Javier, and Raul
Pitieri
11. From the Ashes of War: Lessons From 50 years of Korean
International Adoption - Hollee McGinnis
Part IV: Special Issues in Adoption - Amanda L. Baden
12. Open Adoptions: Longitudinal Outcomes for the Adoption Triad -
Ruth McRoy, Harold D. Grotevant, Susan Ayers-Lopez, and Susan M.
Henney
13. Single-Parent Adoptions and Clinical Implications - Naz
Pakizegi
14. The Special Needs of Special-Needs Adoptees and Their Families
- Elizabeth Keagy and Barbara Rall
15. Double Stigma: The Impact of Adoption Issues on Lesbian and Gay
Adoptive Parents - Carol A. Boyer
16. The Importance of Kinship Relationships for Children in Foster
Care - Kathy Doyle
17. School Issues and Adoption: Academic Considerations and
Adaptation at School - Francine Fishman and Elliotte Sue
Harrington
Part V: Training and Education for Adoption Therapy Competence -
Amanda L. Baden
18. Introduction to Adoption for Mental Health Professionals -
Joyce Maguire Pavao
19. Counseling Adoption Triad Members: Making a Case for Adoption
Training for Counselors and Clinical Psychologists - Theresa
Porch
20. Psycholgists′ Self-Reported Adoption Knowledtge and the Need
for More Adoption Education - Daniel A. Sass and Douglas B.
Henderson
Part VI: Research Findings in Adoption Work - Rafael A. Javier
21. Research Contributions: Strengthening Services for Members of
the Adoption Triad - Madelyn Freundlich
22. Birthmothers and Subsequent Children: The Role of Personality
Traits and Attachment History - Mary J. Carr
23. Identity, Psychological Adjustment, Culture, and Race: Issues
for Transracial Adoptees and the Cultural-Racial Identity Model -
Amanda L. Baden
24. Adoptees′ and Birth Parents′ Therapeutic Experiences Related to
Adoption - Douglas B. Henderson, Daniel A. Sass, and Jeanna
Carlson
Part VII: Assessment and Treatment Issues in Adoption - Rafael A.
Javier
25. Why Has the Mental Health Community Been Silent on Adoption
Issues? - Douglas B. Henderson
26. The Inner Life of the Adopted Child: Adoption, Trauma, Loss,
Fantasy, Search, and Reunion - Betty Jean Lifton
27. Birth Parents in Adoption: Using Research to Inform Practice -
Amanda L. Baden, and Mary O′Leary Wiley
28. Relinquishment as a Critical Variable in the Treatment of
Adoptees - Ron Nydam
29. Psychoanalytic Understanding and Treatment of the Adoptee -
Christopher Deeg
30. Psychic Homeless Related to Reactive Attachment Disorder: Dutch
Adult Foreign Adoptees Struggling With Their Identity - Rene
Hoksbergen and Jan ter Laak
31. "I Don′t Know You": Transference and Countertransference
Paradigms With Adoptees - Janet Rivkin Zuckerman and Betty Jean
Buschbaum
Part VIII: Poetic Reflections and Other Creative Processes From
Adoptees - Alina Camacho-Gingerich
32. Reflections - Penny Partridge, Christian Langworthy, and Sarah
Saffian
Part IX: Conclusion
33. A Look at the Future of Adoption: A Call to Action - Rafael A.
Javier, Douglas B. Henderson, Amanda L. Baden, Frank Biafora, and
Alina Camacho-Gingerich
Rafael Javier, Ph.D. holds numerous appointments, including on the clinical faculty at the Downstate Medical Center in New York, St. John's University, NYU Medical School, and several institutes and family counseling centers. He is a very prolific author, having written and edited many books and journal articles in the fields of interpersonal violence, family, language and cognition and diversity. Amanda L. Baden earned her Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology from Michigan State University. Currently, she is assistant professor of Counseling at Montclair State University. She has published widely in the area of counseling and adoption.
"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, Springfield
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