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Adoption Counselors' Perspectives of Counseling Postadoptive Families
Author(s) -
Lancaster Chloe,
Ovrebo Elin,
Zuckerman Stephanie
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
journal of counseling and development
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.805
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1556-6676
pISSN - 0748-9633
DOI - 10.1002/jcad.12156
Subject(s) - mental health , perspective (graphical) , psychology , qualitative research , welfare , family therapy , counseling psychology , nursing , medical education , clinical psychology , medicine , psychotherapist , sociology , political science , social science , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
This study was conducted to explore the mental health needs of families who adopted from the state welfare system. Using consensual qualitative research, the authors examined the perspectives of 8 clinical mental health counselors who provided counseling services to postadoptive families. Findings represented by 5 domains and supported by 15 categories include the counselors' perspective of (a) strength of the current program, (b) families in crisis, (c) parents' construction of their child's problem, (d) programmatic limitations, and (e) systemic limitations.