Caring for Your Adopted Child
An Essential Guide for Parents
Whether your child joined your family through domestic adoption, international adoption, or foster care, he or she may have needs that require special consideration. In Caring for Your Adopted Child: An Essential Guide for Parents by Dr. Elaine E. Schulte and Robin Michaelson, you'll find trusted parenting advice from the American Academy of Pediatrics, with a focus on the mental and physical wellbeing of children who are adopted. The coauthors, both adoptive parents, weave their personal experiences with essential information on -Preparing for your child to join your family -Coping with the changes that adoption brings--for your new child and for other family members -Partnering with your pediatrician before adoption, for your child's first doctor's visit, and beyond -Dealing with health issues and conditions more prevalent in children who are adopted -Fostering your child's emotional health, including attachment -Talking about adoption--with your child and with others Caring for Your Adopted Child is the clear, reassuring advice adoptive parents need, written expressly for them by an adoption medicine specialist and other adoptive parents.
Elaine E. Schulte, MD, MPH, FAAP, has practiced adoption medicine for more than 20 years. She is a board-certified pediatrician and Vice Chair, Academic Affairs and Faculty Development at the Children's Hospital at Montefiore and Professor of Pediatrics at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in Bronx, New York. She is the mother of two adopted children and lives in Westchester, New York.
Robin Michaelson is a writer and editor who has worked on such bestselling titles as Caring for Your Baby and Young Child: Birth to Age 5 and The Happiest Baby on the Block. She is the mother of an adopted daughter and lives in Brooklyn, New York.
