“YOU Were Adopted?!”: Microaggressions Toward Adolescent Adopted Individuals in Same-Race Families

The Counseling Psychologist

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 435-462

  Garber, Karin J ^a   Grotevant, Harold D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS   (United States)

Author keywords

adolescent; adoption; microaggressions; stigma

Indexed keywords

EID: 84937777321     PISSN: 00110000     EISSN: 15523861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0011000014566471     Document Type: Article

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