Adoption Medicine: Caring for Children and Families

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