International Adoption and Clinical Practice
No matter how positive the intent of prospective parents, international adoption is fraught with emotional, medical, administrative, linguistic, and geopolitical issues. And while a wide range of professionals supports adopted children and their families
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Heidi Schwarzwald Elizabeth Montgomery Collins Susan Gillespie Adiaha I. A. Spinks-Franklin
International Adoption and Clinical Practice
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Heidi Schwarzwald Texas Children’s Health Plan Center for Children and Women Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas USA Elizabeth Montgomery Collins, M.D., M.P.H. Section of Retrovirology & Global Health Texas Children’s Hospital Center For International Adoption; Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas USA
Susan Gillespie Retrovirology and Global Health Texas Children’s Hospital Center For International Adoption Houston New York USA Adiaha I. A. Spinks-Franklin, MD, MPH Meyer Center for Developmental Pediatrics Texas Children’s Hospital Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas USA
ISSN 2192-3698 ISSN 2192-3701 (electronic) SpringerBriefs in Public Health ISBN 978-3-319-13490-1 ISBN 978-3-319-13491-8 (eBook) DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-13491-8 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015933276 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptat
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