Adoption Medicine

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, FAAPPatrick 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, FAAPLisa 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.

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