AICAN - Health

Health

	Challenges Experienced by Intercountry Adopted Children Human Resources and Social Development Canada
	Internationally Adopted Children Hit Puberty Earlier, Study Finds Internationally adopted children can undergo puberty at an early age making them more susceptible to a variety of health risks as adults. But are internationally adopted children really more at risk? Read more...

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	ATTACh Position Statement on Coercive Therapy for Attachment Disorder
	ATTACh Accepted Definitions on Attachment
	Signs and Symptoms of Attachment Problems
	The Importance of Attachment
	Theoretical Rationale for the Treatment of Disorders of Attachment
	What is Attachment?

Parenting

Parents should keep their children in rear-facing car seats at least until the age of four, according to a British study. Data from Sweden - where rear-facing seats for kids up to four is the norm - showed that some children in forward-facing booster seats who died in accidents could have survived had they been facing the other way round.

Language

The signs of speech and language delay in young internationally adopted children This article was inspired by a telephone consultation with a prospective parent concerned about a 3 year old child from South America, who she was considering for adoption.

Newsgroups

Newsgroups dealing with Health Issues List of newsgroups on the AICAN website dealing with Health Issues

Adoption Disruption

	A Parent's Guide to Adoption Disruption and Dissolution
	Adoption Disruption in Western Australia
	Adoption Disruption or Dissolution Sites

Behavioural and Emotional

	A Forever Family
	Beyond Consequences Institute Dedicated to providing solutions for families raising children with difficult behaviours
	Childhood stress affects health years later, UW study says Children who spent their first years in institutions before being adopted by loving and affluent families still suffered long-term damage to their immune systems as a result of early emotional stress.
	Co-Sleeping and Dr Nick Carr Interview (ABC)
	Kuddle Kids Korner
	Promoting Attachment through the Senses Article by Patricia Irwin Johnston
	Raising Children
	Rejection Network Group - Support Group for Anyone Rejected Following Family Separation
	Seven Lifelong Issues in Adoption Adoption is a lifelong, intergenerational process that unites the triad of birth families, adoptees, and adoptive families forever. Adoption, especially of adolescents, can lead to both great joy and tremendous pain.
	Study: Foreign-born kids have relatively few behavioral problems
	Understanding Race and Adoption

Foster Care

ADHD: a women's issue - Psychologists are fighting gender bias in research on attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder. Article relevant to adoption and fostercare

Reactive Attachment Disorder (RAD)

	ADHD or Hyperarousal? Hyperactivity in Traumatised and Adopted Children Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Ask the Doctor: Reactive Attachment Disorder
	Attachment and Bonding Center of Ohio
	Attachment Disorder Support Group Information on attachment disorder, bonding, special needs children, real life testimonials, people, and much more
	Attachment theory (Wikipedia)
	Books dealing with RAD List of book on the AICAN website dealing with Reactive Attachment Disorder
	Calming Your Wild Child (and even the not-so-wild one) Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Debbie Jeffrey's Attachment Information Pages Resources for people who care about and for troubled kids
	Dyadic Developmental Psychotherapy (Wikipedia) An evidence-based treatment approach, found by two studies and several empirical articles to be effective for treatment of RAD
	Experts for attachment disorder Marymead Child and Family Centre
	Facilitating Attachment - Attachment Difficulties and Attachment Disorder in Adopted Children Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Fear leads to Anger. Anger leads to Hate. Hate leads to Suffering. Master Yoda - Star Wars Episode
	Nancy Verrier (USA)
	Newsgroups dealing with RAD List of newsgroups on the AICAN website dealing with Reactive Attachment Disorder
	Niels Peter Rygaard's Attachment Disorder Website
	Parents as Co-therapists: Treating Traumatised and Attachment Disordered Children (NSW Institute of Psychiatry Conference, 2004) Article by Debbie Jeffrey
	Post Institute for Family Centered Therapy Creating the Healing Foundation for Our World, One Relationship at a Time
	RadKid.Org Reactive Attachment Disorder & Detachment Issues
	Reactive attachment disorder (Wikipedia)
	Sharpening the Focus on Attachment A Report on the 14th Annual International Conference on Attachment and Bonding
	Taming the Wild Child Helping Parents Make Their Child Cooperate
	Ten Ways to Support a RAD Mom
	Top Ten Don'ts For Parents of Unattached Children
	What is RAD (Reactive Attachment Disorder)
	Woodbury Online Online resource for parents of at-risk teens

Special Needs

Attachment Disorder Support Group Information on attachment disorder, bonding, special needs children, real life testimonials, people, and much more

Assorted

	Adopting hope: Center coordinates transfer of unused embryos to infertile couples Prospective parents sometimes see the National Embryo Donation Center as the crossroads of medicine and miracles.
	Adoption and Mental Illness Does adoption pose psychological risks? University of Minnesota researchers revisited this controversial issue recently and found that common DSM-IV childhood disorders are more prevalent in adoptees than nonadoptees.
	Can adoptive moms breastfeed?
	Impact of Adoption on Adopted Persons: A Fact sheet for Families
	Issues Facing Adult Adoptees Do the effects of adoption stop the moment that a child comes home to the new parents?
	Mental health, attachment and breastfeeding: implications for adopted children and their mothers This paper reviews the evidence in physiological and behavioural research, that breastfeeding can play a significant role in developing the attachment relationship between child and mother.
	Mongolian Spots
	Orphan Doctor Great medical info; Evaluate child referrals; Diagnose unique illnesses
	Survey of Children Adopted From Eastern Europe - The Need for Special School Services
	Thalasemia Is this a life threatening ailment or a chronic medical condition that may be medically managed?