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When adoptive couples navigate mental health across cultural healing traditions

My wife and I adopted internationally and our daughter's birth culture has different concepts about mental health treatment that conflict with what her therapists recommend - we want to honor her heritage while getting her help but we don't know how to navigate these different healing approaches.

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Parental love spans cultural divides when honoring a child's heritage conflicts with accessing effective mental health care.

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