Amanda Baden

Transcultural systems therapist and educator

Amanda L. Baden, Ph.D. is a transracial adoptee, adopted internationally from Hong Kong. She believes in examining issues of race, privilege, oppression, and power in adoption to promote ethical and sensitive practice with transracial adoptees and their families.

Amanda is a Professor and the Doctoral Program Director in the graduate Counseling Program at Montclair State University (NJ) and she is a licensed psychologist with a practice in New York City. She focuses her research and clinical practice on the adoption kinship network, transracial/international adoption issues, racial and cultural identity, and multicultural counseling competence. Amanda was an editor of The Handbook of Adoption: Implications for Researchers, Practitioners, and Families. Amanda serves on the Board on the New York State Board of Psychology, the Advisory Board for the Rudd Adoption Research Program (UMass-Amherst), the Board of Creating a Family, as Senior Fellow for the National Center on Adoption and Permanency, as chair of the Adoption Initiative Biennial Conferences held in NYC, and as a Senior Fellow for the former Donaldson Adoption Institute.

Amanda is a Fellow for the Counseling Psychology Division 17 of the American Psychological Association (APA). She was awarded the John D. Black Award in 2014 from the APA and Division 17 for the Outstanding Practice of Counseling Psychology, Outstanding Graduate Advisor for Montclair State University in 2017, and Angel in Adoption in 2005.

Amanda lives in Manhattan in New York City. Visit her website for more information.

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Keynote: Reclaiming Birth Origins for Transnational Adoptees: Reculturation, Identity, and Birth Search

10:45

11:25

Donderdag

Keynote presentatie

Amanda Baden

Internationally and often across different races, adoptees undergo significant cultural and familial changes during adoption. This presentation explores how adoptees, especially in adulthood, grapple with identity, considering factors such as race, adoption, and culture, and addresses coping mechanisms for the associated stigma.

Panel discussion: Searching for origins/reculturation

11:25

12:15

Donderdag

Panelgesprek

Amanda Baden, Hari Prasad Sacré, Janice Reul, Lynelle Long, Patrick Noordoven, Lucho Huisman & Erben Oosting

For this panel discussion, we will explore the various ways in which intercountry adoptees reclaim their roots and birth culture, examining the effects on identity and the challenges that may arise in the process. The different panel members, Amanda Baden, Lucho Huisman, Hari Prasad Sacré, Lynelle Long and Janice Reul will engage this topic from ... Lees verder

Navigating the Intersectionality of Race, Culture, and Adoption: Lessons on Microaggressions and Adoption Sensitivity

13:05

14:45

Donderdag

Workshop

Amanda Baden

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.

Transformative Justice: a way to recognition and recovery

14:00

14:45

Donderdag

Workshop

Niké Wentholt

Introducing the concept of Transformative Justice - a new approach in the field of Transitional Justice - we like to discuss in which way it might allow to examine and discuss question of recognition and repair around adoption in a more bottom-up and systemic ways.