Adoption of Black children by White parents in heterosexual and homosexual relationships: Exploring mental health trainees' explicit and implicit attitudes

摘要: ABSTRACTWe investigated 163 (82.2% female; 73% White; and 91.4% heterosexual) mental health trainees' explicit implicit attitudes toward heterosexual, lesbian, gay White couples adopting raising Black children. Explicit were assessed with a vignette depicting child in need of home. Implicit the multifactor association test (IAT) protocol. data showed that most participants indicated no strong family preference. However, IAT trainees had preference, moderate preference for lesbian over heterosexual moderate-to-strong couples. The only demonstrated very weak Overall, congruence between is low. Implications training are discussed.