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This book offers a clear, well-documented view of troubled adoptive families. It focuses on adoptive families after the legal finalization of the adoption has taken place and is full of case examples, detailed case histories and presentations of various practice strategies.

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I Just want to know more about who i am: Identity Issues

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Susan Livingston Smith
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Jeanne A. Howard
In:Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families
Chapter DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843
Subject:Social Work - Families
Keywords:adopted children; adopted people; adoption; adoptive parents; birth parents; child adoption; children

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I Just want to know more about who i am: Identity Issues

I just want to know more about who i am: Identity issues

The interplay between adoption and identity formation is a theme in most treatises on adoption. Adoption is seen as a complicating factor in identity development, particularly if little is known or shared about the child's ...

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  Smith, Susan L., and Jeanne A. Howard. Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families. Sage Sourcebooks for SSHS the Human Services. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1999. https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.
  
  Smith, S. L. and Howard, J. A., 1999. Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families. Sage Sourcebooks for SSHS the Human Services. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc. Available at: <https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843> [Accessed 7 Feb 2023].
  
  Smith, Susan L. and Jeanne A. Howard. Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families. Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc., 1999. SAGE Knowledge, Sage Sourcebooks for SSHS the Human Services, 7 Feb 2023, doi: https://dx.doi.org/10.4135/9781452232843.
  
  Smith, Susan L., and Jeanne A. Howard. Promoting Successful Adoptions: Practice with Troubled Families Thousand Oaks, CA: SAGE Publications, Inc.; 1999. doi:10.4135/9781452232843
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