Adoption Medicine
$39.95
| Title | Range | Discount |
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| Trade Discount | 5 + | 25% |
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Description
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.
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.
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
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
>hr<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.
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 |
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| Dimensions | 1 × 6 × 9 in |
