Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Adoption (1)
- Adoption practice (1)
- Birth parents (1)
- Choice (1)
- Clinical research (1)
-
- Comparative study (1)
- Conceptual analysis (1)
- Counseling psychology (1)
- Data analysis (1)
- Ethics (1)
- Ethnography (1)
- Mental disorder (1)
- Methodology (1)
- Personal commitment (1)
- Psychological counseling (1)
- Qualitative analysis (1)
- Relationships (1)
- Research field (1)
- Research worker (1)
- Review (1)
- Trauma (1)
- Treatment (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Social Psychology
Ethnography In Counseling Psychology Research: Possibilities For Application., Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia, Lisa A. Suzuki, Jacqueline S. Mattis, Cherubim A. Quizon
Ethnography In Counseling Psychology Research: Possibilities For Application., Muninder Kaur Ahluwalia, Lisa A. Suzuki, Jacqueline S. Mattis, Cherubim A. Quizon
Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works
The emphasis placed on prolonged engagement, fieldwork, and participant observation has prevented the wide-scale use of ethnography in counseling psychology. This article provides a discussion of ethnography in terms of definition, process, and potential ethical dilemmas. The authors propose that ethnographically informed methods can enhance counseling psychology research conducted with multicultural communities and provide better avenues toward a contextual understanding of diversity as it relates to professional inquiry. (APA PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)
Birth Parents In Adoption: Research, Practice, And Counseling Psychology, Amanda Baden, Mary O'Leary Wiley
Birth Parents In Adoption: Research, Practice, And Counseling Psychology, Amanda Baden, Mary O'Leary Wiley
Department of Counseling Scholarship and Creative Works
This article addresses birth parents in the adoption triad by reviewing and integrating both the clinical and empirical literature from a number of professional disciplines with practice case studies. This review includes literature on the decision to relinquish one’s child for adoption, the early postrelinquishment period, and the effects throughout the lifespan on birth parents. Clinical symptoms for birth parents include unresolved grief, isolation, difficulty with future relationships, and trauma. Some recent research has found that some birth mothers who relinquish tend to fare comparably to those who do not relinquish on external criteria of well-being (e.g., high school graduation …