The Nature of Adoptee Search: Adventure, Cure, or Growth?.

Andersen, Robert S.

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Publication Date: 1989

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The Nature of Adoptee Search: Adventure, Cure, or Growth?

Andersen, Robert S.

Child Welfare, v68 n6 p623-32 Nov-Dec 1989

Describes reasons that adoptees search for their biological parents. Reasons are categorized into search as adventure and search as therapy. The latter is further divided into medical and psychological models. (RJC)

Descriptors: Adopted Children, Adoption, Biological Parents, Models, Psychological Needs

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Language: English

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