Counseling Adult Adoptee Clients with Multiple Minority Stress

Abstract

Using the multiple minority stress theory and intersectional theory, this article examines how adult transracial LGBTQIA+ adoptees are also affected by multiple minority stress. Using a decolonial lens, this article will help counselors and other mental health professionals understand how to serve adoptee clients with intersectional identities.

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Adult adoptee LGBTQIA+transracial adoption multiple minority stress counseling

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