Post-Legal Adoption Treatment Groups: Intervening with Families Who Experience Failed Adoptions

Crossing Boundaries and Developing Alliances Through Group Work

Volumn , Issue , 2023, Pages 193-208

  Harper Dorton, Karen V ^a  

^a WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9781003417873-12     Document Type: Chapter

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