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Where Attachment Meets Acculturation: Three Cases of International Adoption

Chloe Lancaster

Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas, Chloelan{at}netscape.com

Kaye W. Nelson

Department of Counseling & Educational Psychology, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Corpus Christi, Texas

Three mothers of eight children adopted from China were interviewed about their experience with international adoption. A narrative phenomenological research design resulted in the identification of six themes from their stories (a) not being prepared and survival, fear, and grief; (b) attachment; (c) barriers faced in the schools; (d) burn out; (e) counseling; (f) strategies of building community and validating ethnic identity and acculturation; and (g) becoming a family takes time. Authors recommend further research and more attention to the family counseling needs of international adoption families.

Key Words: international adoption • phenomenological research • narrative themes • orphanage • family counseling

This version was published on October 1, 2009

The Family Journal, Vol. 17, No. 4, 302-311 (2009)
DOI: 10.1177/1066480709347357
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