YOU Were Adopted?!”

Microaggressions Toward Adolescent Adopted Individuals in Same-Race Families

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8914323
AutoresKarin J Garber (University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA, autor de correspondencia), Harold D Grotevant (0000-0001-5800-1522, University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, MA, USA)
Año2015
Volumen43
Número3
Páginas435-462
Fecha de publicación2015-02-04
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Counseling Psychologist (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0011-0000 • E-ISSN: 1552-3861
EditorialSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/0011000014566471
OpenAlexW2152097823
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas40
Referencias citadas27

This study delineated a microaggressions typology and corresponding intensity levels that occur to adopted adolescents. The microaggressions framework by Sue et al. was adapted to identify this adoptive microaggression typology. Interviews with 153 (males = 79, females = 74) non-Latino/a White adolescent adopted individuals in same-race families were analyzed. Thematic analysis was used to discover 16 themes: (a) Silence, (b) Overly Intrusive Questions, (c) Assumption of Bionormativity, (d) Recurring Confusion/Ignorance, (e) In-House Divisions, (f) Public “Outing,” (g) Using Adoption, (h) Questioning Authenticity, (i) Unacknowledged Identity Status, (j) Spokesperson for Adoption, (k) Adoptees as Nonnormative, (l) Sensitivity, (m) Negative Stereotypes about Birth parents, (n) Adoptees as Orphans, (o) Negative Societal Portrayal of Adoption, and (p) Other. Implications for theory and practice are provided

Aesthetics · Confusion · Developmental psychology · Epistemology · Identity (music · Ignorance · Psychoanalysis · Qualitative research · Silence · Social science · Sociology · Thematic analysis · Typology · White (mutation · Anthropology · Child Welfare and Adoption · Family Dynamics and Relationships · Gender Studies · Psychology · Reproductive Health and Technologies · Social Psychology