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Title:Adolescent Today in Medicine
Author:Nicolas Zdanowicz, Ann de Braconier-d'Alcantara, V Delvenne, V Dubois, P Eeckeleers, Ch Reynaert & P Schepens (eds)
ISBN:1600217648 : 9781600217647
Illustrations:tables
Format:Hardback
Size:180x260mm
Pages:155
Weight: .558 Kg.
Published:Nova Science Publishers - December 2007
List Price: 52.99 Pounds Sterling
Availability:In Print
Subjects:Public health & preventive medicine


During the past 10 years, it has become clear that adolescence is a crucial time for the acquisition of behaviours that will favour good overall health. Indeed, the more adolescents who are able to make favourable decisions regarding their health, the more effective a prevention policy we will have for a number of diseases and illnesses (cardiovascular, psychiatric, cancer, etc.). The specialist's goal is to have the young person assume more responsibility for his or her health. Such a goal should take into account a number of factors specific to this age group. Accordingly, adolescents should not be thought of simply as miniature adults. If disease is defined in the adult as a loss of good health, it is defined as a problem in the development of good health during adolescence. At this age, the state of one's health can be attributed, in part, to various adolescent stresses such as family relationships, depressive experiences, and behaviours that include experimentation with drugs. A health care professional must be able to take all of these factors into account. This book gives a voice to the various specialists who encourage this particular way of thinking when approaching adolescents and their health.

Introduction; Adolescent's Health: Individual and Family; The Adolescent Care as Experienced by the Hospital Paediatrician; Adolescence, Health, and Adoption; Attachment and Depression in Adolescence; Crisis Intervention Model with Adolescent Presenting Somatic Complaints in Emergency Psychiatry; Patients Have Families; The Adolescent in Family Medical Practice; Generation Cannabis: Drugs and Adolescence; Index.