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Adoptee Consciousness Model[1] is a framework designed to understand the unique psychological and emotional experiences of adoptees. It explores how the experience of adoption impacts an individual’s identity, sense of belonging, and overall emotional well-being.
Overview
[edit]The Adoptee Consciousness Model was co-developed by adoptee advocates and researchers Susan F. Branco, JaeRan Kim, Grace Newton, Stephanie Kripa Cooper-Lewter, and Paula O’Loughlin. It aims to illuminate the challenges and emotional struggles that adoptees may face throughout their lives.[2]And illustrates how adoptees process personal adoption experiences to eventual public discourse.[3]
The model builds upon the work of Chicana scholar Gloria Anzaldúa, who outlines a 7-stage "conocimiento process" of socio-political awakening detailed her 2013 book "This bridge we call home: Radical visions for transformation."[1][4]
Key Components
[edit]The model is portrayed as five "touchstones" within a spiral shape, which portrays it as a continuous rather than linear experience.
"the Adoptee Consciousness Model ... offers a way to make sense of how adoptees come to activism through various ‘touchstones’ over their life course. Adoptees traverse these touchstones in a spiral that can shift, change, and reverse; it is not a linear process where adoptees move sequentially along a prescribed path or are nestled within or stuck at one point."[5]
1. Status Quo
[edit]Accepting the prevailing narrative of adoption, which focuses primarily on positive perspectives, and does not challenge the individual or systemic factors that contribute to the adoption process.
2. Rupture
[edit]Encountering information or experiencing an event that challenges the existing norms, which can lead to the realization that one's own or others' adoption information is incorrect, misleading, unethical, or even illegal. For transracial adoptees, this might involve recognizing that they are perceived as BIPOC, despite personally identifying as White.
3. Dissonance
[edit]The tension or conflict between seemingly opposing beliefs or truths can create dissonance for adoptees, leading to emotional distress, including pain, anguish, anger, anxiety, or a sense of dysregulation as they confront the realizations that emerge during this disruption.
4. Expansiveness
[edit]The concept that through embracing the paradox of their experiences, adoptees can appreciate multiple viewpoints and remain considerate of those who may not share their perspective. This phase is one of reinvention and reintegration of their diverse identities, allowing them to see themselves through an intersectional lens rather than being confined to a single identity.
5. Forgiveness & Activism
[edit]Looking beyond personal experiences, individuals recognize systemic oppression in adoption practices and history. They begin the process of forgiveness when necessary and challenge the prevailing narrative.
Significance
[edit]The Adoptee Consciousness Model aims to clarify terminology related to mental health struggles faced by adoptees, and replace inaccurate and outdated language surrounding the adoptee experience.[1][6] The model can help counselors support adoptee students and clients.[7]
"The model considers intersecting racial, ethnic, and cultural identities while also promoting empathy for adoptees wherever they are on the spiral of adoptee consciousness, and informs body-inclusive therapists working with adoptees’ somatic needs."[2]
SuhAh Marie Laybourn summarizes the model in her article, "Critical Adoptee Standpoint: Transnational, Transracial Adoptees as Knowledge Producers."
"Through ruptures that challenge the status quo, experiences of dissonance, and exploring paradoxes in adoption, adoptees move from an individual awareness of adoption to group consciousness and then collective action. Not all adoptees will move through each touchpoint in the adoptee consciousness model, and it is not a linear progression with a predetermined outcome."[8]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Branco, Susan F. (2022). "Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A Model of Adoptee Awareness" (PDF). intercountryadopteevoices.com. Retrieved Oct 9, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Branco, Susan F.; Kim, JaeRan; Newton, Grace; Cooper-Lewter, Stephanie Kripa; O’Loughlin, Paula (Summer 2023). "Out of the Fog and into Consciousness: A Model of Adoptee Awareness" (PDF). International Body Psychotherapy Journal: The Art and Science of Somatic Praxis. 22 (1): 53–66 – via European Association for Body Psychotherapy, United States Association for Body Psychotherapy.
- ^ Haworth-Kaufka, Joon Ae (August 26, 2024). "We Contain Multitudes: BIPOC adoptees rewrite the mainstream adoption narrative". Oregon Humanities. Retrieved Oct 10, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Anzaldúa, Gloria (2013). "This bridge we call home: Radical visions for transformation". Taylor & Francis Group. Retrieved Oct 9, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Blake, Denise; Ahuriri-Driscoll, Annabel; Summer, Barbara (2023-02-02). "Adoptee Activism: I Am Not Your 'Child for All Purposes'". Counterfutures – via Open Access Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington.
- ^ Holden, Lori. "Adoption: The Long View Podcast, Episode 509: Supporting Your Adoptee Through the Adoptee Consciousness Model". adopting.com. Retrieved Oct 10, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Rhodes, Lisa R. (July 2024). "Adoption Complexities". American Counseling Association: Counseling Today. Retrieved Oct 10, 2024.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ Laybourn, SunAh Marie (3 June 2024). "Critical Adoptee Standpoint: Transnational, Transracial Adoptees as Knowledge Producers". Geneology. 8 (2): 71 – via MDPI.
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