Health Care Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care and Kinship Care.
Publication/Presentation Date
10-1-2015
Abstract
Children and adolescents who enter foster care often do so with complicated and serious medical, mental health, developmental, oral health, and psychosocial problems rooted in their history of childhood trauma. Ideally, health care for this population is provided in a pediatric medical home by physicians who are familiar with the sequelae of childhood trauma and adversity. As youth with special health care needs, children and adolescents in foster care require more frequent monitoring of their health status, and pediatricians have a critical role in ensuring the well-being of children in out-of-home care through the provision of high-quality pediatric health services, health care coordination, and advocacy on their behalves.
Volume
136
Issue
4
First Page
1131
Last Page
1140
ISSN
1098-4275
Published In/Presented At
COUNCIL ON FOSTER CARE, ADOPTION, AND KINSHIP CARE, & COMMITTEE ON ADOLESCENCE, and COUNCIL ON EARLY CHILDHOOD (2015). Health Care Issues for Children and Adolescents in Foster Care and Kinship Care. Pediatrics, 136(4), e1131–e1140. https://doi.org/10.1542/peds.2015-2655
Disciplines
Medicine and Health Sciences | Pediatrics
PubMedID
26416941
Department(s)
Department of Pediatrics
Document Type
Article