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Promoting Health Care Transitions for Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities
Edited by Cecily L. Betz, Ph.D., RN, FAAN, & Wendy M. Nehring, Ph.D., RN, FAAN

More than nine million children in the U.S. have special health care needs*—and as these children reach adulthood, they face an often difficult transition from pediatric care to adult medical care.

Make that challenging shift much easier with this comprehensive, problem-solving guide, the book that finally helps professionals across systems work together on effective health care transition plans. This strategy-filled planning resource helps readers

• improve their collaboration with other professionals to ensure coordinated care and services for young people
  
  
• skillfully assess individual medical and health care needs
  
  
• develop workable health care transition plans from start to finish
  
  
• ensure that transition outcomes match the goals and desires of the individual
  
  
• help families locate and select adult medical and health care providers
  
  
• assist young people in securing health-related accommodations in school and at work

Professionals will get everything they need for successful health care transition planning

• structured guidelines based on best practices
  
  
• transition health care assessments
  
  
• helpful case studies and resource lists
  
  
• and Internet links to free planning tools (including printable transition questionnaires, timelines, planning workbooks for families, and videos that show transition planning in action)

With this thorough and readable guide to an often-overlooked aspect of transition planning, professionals from a wide range of settings will come together to ensure effective, coordinated medical care as adolescents reach adulthood.

*National Center for Health Statistics, The National Survey of Children with Special Needs Chartbook, 2001

ORDERING INFO
ISBN 978-155766860-8
Paperback
328 pages
7 x 10
2007
$34.95
Stock# 68608

1. Health Care Transitions: An Introduction
Cecily L. Betz & Joseph Telfair

2. Service, Legal, and Ethical Issues Pertaining to the Continuum of Needs of Adolescents with Special Health Care Needs and Disabilities
Theodore A. Kastner, Kevin K. Walsh, Teresa A. Savage, & Eric B. Christeson

3. Health Insurance Options for Transition-Age Adolescents and Young Adults
Kathryn Smith & Nicole Garro

4. Promoting Health Care Self-Care and Long-Term Disability Management
Cecily L. Betz & Lioness Ayres

5. Strategies for Locating Adult Primary and Specialty Physicians
Debra S. Lotstein

6. Accommodations for School and Work
Wendy M. Nehring

7. Methods of Assessing Transition Health Care Needs
Susan W. Ledlie

8. Developing Transition Health Care Plans
John G. Reiss & Robert W. Gibson

9. Looking for Applause: Determining Transition Health Outcomes
Kathleen B. Blomquist, Linda M. Graham, & Jennifer Thomas

10. Integrating Health-Related Needs into Individualized Education Programs and 504 Plans
Cecily L. Betz & Wendy M. Nehring

11. Developing and Using a 504 Plan
Stanley D. Handmaker

12. Working with Job Developers and Employers
Roberta Ross & Wendy M. Nehring

13. Forming Interagency Partnerships
Roberta Ross and Judy Reichle

14. Care Coordination
Kathryn Smith