Table of 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

About the Author

Council on Foster Care, Adoption, and Kinship Care

Co-Editor: Dana E. Johnson, MD, PhD, FAAPDana E. Johnson, MD, PhD, FAAP, is professor of pediatrics at Universityof Minnesota in Minneapolis, MN.

Co-Editor: Patrick W. Mason, MD, FAAP

Patrick W. Mason, MD, PhD, FAAP, is in the Division of Endocrinologyof Inova Children's Hospital in Falls Church, VA.

Co-Editor: Lisa Albers Prock, MD, MPH, FAAP

Lisa Albers Prock, MD, MPH, FAAP, is assistant professor at HarvardMedical School and director of the adoption program at Boston Children'sHospital in Boston, MA.