[mberbery]

Are you a White adoptive parent of an Asian child or children? Your help is needed for a research study about adoptive families!

You can provide researchers with valuable information that will help advance understanding regarding transracial adoptive families. This knowledge can eventually be used to help adoptive families.

My name is Maria Luz Berbery and I am a doctoral student in counseling psychology at the University of Maryland, College Park. I am working with Dr. Karen O’Brien in conducting a research study on White adoptive parents of Asian children. We want to learn more about your experiences raising a child from a country of origin and race that are different from your own. Our study involves a one-time survey that is completed online in about 20 minutes. Your responses will be confidential, and although you will receive no direct benefits, your participation will help researchers understand more about international adoptive families. Please note that only one parent from each family may participate because parents in a couple may respond similarly, and we only want one set of responses for every family. This research has been approved by the University of Maryland, College Park IRB for research involving human participants.

Please visit the following link if you are interested in participating. You will be taken to a website that gives a description of the study. You will also be able to view the informed consent form before you decide if you would like to participate.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?s...gkYiTiYA_3d_3d

Contact Information:
Dr. Karen O’Brien, Professor
University of Maryland Department of Psychology
1147 Biology-Psychology Building
College Park, MD 20782
kobrien@psyc.umd.edu
301-405-5812

Maria Luz Berbery, Doctoral Student
University of Maryland Department of Psychology
1147 Biology-Psychology Building
College Park, MD 20742
mberbery@psyc.umd.edu