Main description:

Leading experts provide data and guidance for health professionals on a wide variety of adoption medicine topics. The first part of the book covers the process of adoption, including historical perspectives and legal issues. Then, individual chapters focus in on common health concerns for adopted children, such as behaviour, speech, and maltreatment issues. Additional chapters tackle long-term support for adopted children and their families, including school issues and search for identity.

Contents:

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