title: Adoption counseling as a preventive mental health specialty.
abstract: Adoption workers who consider one goal of their work the prevention of emotional problems can help adoptive families and adoptees deal with the risks that are inherent in adoption.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000300:Adoption; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003158:Community Psychiatry; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000517:prevention & control; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D011316:Preventive Psychiatry; D013038:Specialization