A Framework for Use with Racially and Culturally Integrated Families: The Cultural-Racial Identity Model as Applied to Transracial Adoption

Journal of Social Distress and the Homeless

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 309-337

  Baden, Amanda L ^a,b   Steward, Robbie J ^c  

^a Division of Human Services and Counseling   (United States)

^b ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 0034414483     PISSN: 10530789     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1009493827019     Document Type: Article

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