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RESOURCES

• The Handbook of International Adoption Medicine
  A Guide for Physicians, Parents, and Providers
  by Laurie C. Miller, M.D.
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  Since 1989, American families have adopted more than 167,000 children from other countries. Many of these children have lived in crowded conditions, sometimes with poor standards of hygiene, inadequate nutrition, and limited numbers of caregivers. Some suffer from endemic infectious diseases. Upon arrival, practitioners often fail to recognize the unique concerns of this group. This text provides an overview of the specialized medical and developmental issues that affect internationally adopted children, offering guidelines to the physicians caring for these children and their families before, during, and after adoption. The reader will learn how to advise families prior to an international adoption, how to perform an effective initial screening assessment of the newly arrived child, and how to recognize and manage developmental and other more long-term problems as they emerge.

• Adoption Parenting: Creating a Toolbox, Building Connections
  edited by Jean MacLeod and Sheena Macrae
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  Parenting adopted children requires parenting with an extra layer and this book helps you to understand where that extra layer falls.

• Kinship by Design: A History of Adoption in the Modern United States
  by Ellen Herman
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  What constitutes a family? Tracing the dramatic evolution of Americans’ answer to this question over the past century, Kinship by Design provides the fullest account to date of modern adoption’s history.

• Adoption Health Services Providers
  Listing of Adoption Medicine Professionals in the United States and beyond.

• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  Formerly the National Clearinghouse on Child Abuse and Neglect Information and the National Adoption Information Clearinghouse, Child Welfare Information Gateway provides access to information and resources to help protect children and strengthen families.

• EMK Press
  Tools and Resources for Adoptive Families and the Professionals Who Help Them

• Perspectives Press
  Since 1982, Perspective Press has been providing award-winning books, articles, and workshops for consumers and for medical, mental health, counseling and allied professionals on infertility, reproductive health and alternative family building—from adoption to collaborative reproduction to fostering to child-free living.
  Perspective Press is going out of business on December 31, 2011, so, as of October 1st, 2011 prices on all of our books have been sliced in half until quantities are gone!

• Adoptive Parents Committee
  The Adoptive Parents Committee (APC) is a non-profit parent support group comprised of volunteers dedicated to improving all aspects of adoption and interim (foster) care.