Adoption Medicine: Caring for Children and Families

This allnew from the American Academy of Pediatrics Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care brings contributions from leading child health and welfare professionals nationwide. Its replete with adoptionspecific insights you wont find anywhere else.Look here for practical guidance on helping adoptive parents prepare; conducting pre and postoperative 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.Reallife examples illustrate counseling and treatment approaches, techniques, and recommendations.The adoption process Historical perspectives Legal considerations Screening procedures Prenatal substance exposure Psychiatric issues Postadoptive evaluation Developmental and behavioral challenges Consequences of maltreatment Attachment and identity issues Speech and language issues Working with schools Support resources