This workshop will focus on helping clinicians, case workers, therapists, and adoption stakeholders (e.g., adoptees, adoptive parents, and birth parents) understand the complex intersection of race, culture, and adoption in the lives of adoptive families. Using various experiential activities along with an interactive and engaging style of discourse, Dr. Amanda Baden will present topics including racial and adoption microaggressions, racial consciousness, privilege, adoption awareness, and the identity journey for adoptive families.
This workshop will introduce attendees to a framework for conceptualizing the oppression experienced by birth/first parents, adoptive/foster parents, and adoptees/foster youth, as well as learning tools to support a positive self-concept in the face of societal myths about their stories.
