Adoption is History: Enhancing Counselor Awareness of Adoption as a Legal and Sociocultural Practice
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Understanding cultural history is essential to becoming a culturally responsive counselor. Despite adoptees’ increased risks for negative mental health outcomes, the history of adoption as a cultural and legal practice has been underemphasized in counseling scholarship. This overview of adoption practices from Ancient Babylon through the mid-1970s highlights lasting historical influences on modern adoption practice and the lingering threats to adoptees’ mental health from systemic legal and sociocultural inequities.
Source: The Family Journal
Author: Sara W. Bailey
Institution: University of Lynchburg
Language: English
Topic: Child Welfare and Adoption
Subfield: Safety Research
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W4403872877