Adoption Medicine

Adoption Medicine

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This all-new from the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care brings contributions from leading child health and welfare professionals nationwide. It’s replete with adoption-specific insights you won’t find anywhere else.

Look here for practical guidance on helping adoptive parents prepare; conducting pre- and post-operative health evaluations; optimizing adoptees’ personal growth and development; addressing emotional and behavioral problems of puberty and adolescence; identifying and accessing educational and community resources, and much more.

Real-life examples illustrate counseling and treatment approaches, techniques, and recommendations.

  • The adoption process
  • Historical perspectives
  • Legal considerations
  • Screening procedures
  • Prenatal substance exposure
  • Psychiatric issues
  • Post-adoptive evaluation
  • Developmental and behavioral challenges
  • Consequences of maltreatment
  • Attachment and identity issues
  • Speech and language issues
  • Working with schools
  • Support resources

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This all-new from the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care brings contributions from leading child health and welfare professionals nationwide. It’s replete with adoption-specific insights you won’t find anywhere else.

Look here for practical guidance on helping adoptive parents prepare; conducting pre- and post-operative health evaluations; optimizing adoptees’ personal growth and development; addressing emotional and behavioral problems of puberty and adolescence; identifying and accessing educational and community resources, and much more.

Real-life examples illustrate counseling and treatment approaches, techniques, and recommendations.

  • The adoption process
  • Historical perspectives
  • Legal considerations
  • Screening procedures
  • Prenatal substance exposure
  • Psychiatric issues
  • Post-adoptive evaluation
  • Developmental and behavioral challenges
  • Consequences of maltreatment
  • Attachment and identity issues
  • Speech and language issues
  • Working with schools
  • Support resources

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Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care

Co-Editor: Dana E. Johnson, MD, PhD, FAAP

Dana E. Johnson, MD, PhD, FAAP, is professor of pediatrics at University

of Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.

Co-Editor: Patrick W. Mason, MD, FAAP

Patrick W. Mason, MD, PhD, FAAP, is in the Division of Endocrinology

of Inova Children's Hospital in Falls Church, VA.

Co-Editor: Lisa Albers Prock, MD, MPH, FAAP

Lisa Albers Prock, MD, MPH, FAAP, is assistant professor at Harvard

Medical School and director of the adoption program at Boston Children's

Hospital in Boston, MA.

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Need-to-know "basics"

  • The adoption process
  • Historical perspectives
  • Legal considerations

Pre-adoption considerations

  • Screening procedures
  •  Prenatal substance exposure
  •  Genetics and psychiatric issues
  •  Neurobiology of risk and resilience

Post-adoption essentials

  •  Post-adoptive evaluation
  •  Immediate developmental and behavioral changes

Ongoing adoptee health and well-being

  •  Long-term developmental and behavioral issues
  •  Long-term consequences of child maltreatment
  •  Growth and puberty concerns
  •  Attachment issues
  • Speech and language outcomes in international adoption
  •  Adoptive identity
  •  Working with schools
  •  Identifying and accessing support resources

Additional information

Weight 2 oz
Dimensions 1 × 6 × 9 in