Handbook of Adolescent Medicine and Health Promotion

Contents......Page 16
Preface......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
About the Author......Page 14
Overview......Page 18
Caring for Teens and Young Adults......Page 20
Interviewing Adolescents......Page 21
Preventive Services Guidelines......Page 25
Physical Health Screening......Page 26
Laboratory Screening......Page 27
Preventive Adolescent Risk Screening......Page 29
Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Developed Countries......Page 30
Clinical Prioritization of Risk Behaviors (priority order, but not necessarily a severity order)......Page 31
Health Education......Page 33
Anticipatory Guidance......Page 34
Confidentiality......Page 35
The Physician’s Role in Maintaining and Breaching Confidentiality......Page 37
Consent and Treatment......Page 40
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 42
Overview......Page 46
Physical Growth......Page 47
Sexual Development......Page 48
Delayed Puberty......Page 52
Psychosocial Development and Behavior......Page 53
Early Adolescence......Page 55
Characteristic behaviors of early adolescence......Page 56
Characteristic behaviors of middle adolescence......Page 59
Characteristic behaviors of late adolescence......Page 60
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 61
Acne......Page 64
Medications......Page 66
Dermatitis......Page 67
Vectors......Page 68
Bacterial Infections......Page 69
Viral Infections......Page 71
Fungal Infections......Page 72
Sunburn......Page 74
Identifying Melanoma......Page 75
Tattoos and Body Piercing......Page 76
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 78
Overview......Page 80
Medical Compliance and Self-Management......Page 81
Self-Esteem and Compliance......Page 82
Decision Making and Goal Setting......Page 83
Optimizing Self-Management Skills and Compliance via Health Education......Page 84
Asthma......Page 85
Diabetes......Page 88
Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes......Page 89
Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes......Page 95
Eating Disorders......Page 98
Obesity and Overweight......Page 99
The Dying Adolescent......Page 105
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 106
Overview......Page 110
Chronic Fatigue......Page 111
Management......Page 113
Mononucleosis & EB-Virus......Page 114
Management......Page 115
Psychosomatic Illnesses......Page 116
The Triad of Anger, Fear, and Stress — then Reactive Depression......Page 118
Making Psychosomatic Diagnoses......Page 120
Chronic Abdominal Pain......Page 122
Headache......Page 123
Differential Diagnosis of Headaches......Page 125
Management......Page 128
Hypertension......Page 129
Management......Page 131
Behavioral and Environmental Interventions......Page 132
Relaxation Training, Self-Hypnosis, Biofeedback and Other Adjunct Interventions......Page 133
Summary......Page 135
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 136
Overview......Page 140
Anxiety, Depression, Suicide......Page 141
Coping with Anger and Fear......Page 142
Anxiety......Page 143
Depression and Bipolar Disorder......Page 145
Violence, Conduct Disorder, and Abuse......Page 154
Prostitution......Page 156
Maltreatment, Emotional and Physical Abuse......Page 157
Sexual Abuse......Page 158
Tobacco Use......Page 160
Tobacco Prevention......Page 161
Alcohol Use......Page 163
Psychoactive Substance Abuse......Page 164
Methamphetamine Abuse......Page 167
Acute Reactions to Drugs of Abuse......Page 168
Diagnosis and Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorder......Page 169
Testing Adolescents for Substances of Abuse......Page 170
Clinical Issues......Page 173
Ethical Issues......Page 175
Attention Deficit Disorder......Page 176
Management......Page 177
Media Exposure......Page 178
Internet Risks......Page 179
Adolescent Drivers......Page 180
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 181
7. Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health......Page 188
Adolescent Sexual Psychology......Page 189
Sexual Health Services......Page 190
Current Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations......Page 192
Parenthood Desire and Sexual Experience......Page 193
Sexual Experience......Page 194
Laboratory Diagnosis......Page 195
Contraception......Page 196
The Male Condom......Page 198
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Injection (Depo-Provera)......Page 199
Oral Contraceptives......Page 200
Emergency Contraception......Page 201
Health Care for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youths......Page 203
Variations in Sexual Development......Page 204
Clinical Issues......Page 206
Clinical Approach to GLBTQ Youths......Page 207
Medical Management......Page 208
Female Reproductive Disorders......Page 209
Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (DUB)......Page 210
Breast Disorders......Page 211
Abdominal Pain......Page 212
Urinary Tract Infection......Page 213
Evaluation and Treatment......Page 214
Sexually Transmitted Infections......Page 215
Sex Education......Page 219
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 221
Overview......Page 226
Preparticipation Sports Evaluation......Page 227
Scoliosis......Page 228
Syncope......Page 229
Common Orthopedic Conditions in the Adolescent......Page 230
Limb Injuries......Page 232
Ankle Sprains......Page 233
Overuse Disorders......Page 235
Performance-Enhancing Substances and Techniques......Page 237
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 238
Overview......Page 240
Adolescent Health Informatics......Page 242
Communications with Adolescent Patients......Page 246
Medical Education Technology......Page 249
Computerized Adolescent Health Screening and Assessment......Page 250
Computer-Assisted Health Promotion and Adolescent Preventive Services......Page 252
Health Promotion and Health Education Using Video, DVD, Multimedia......Page 253
Administration of Video in Medical Settings......Page 255
Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) Games......Page 256
Interactive Patient Health Education Multimedia......Page 257
Emerging Technologies and Future Trends......Page 258
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 259
Health Guidance and Counseling......Page 264
Changing Youths’ Health Behaviors......Page 266
Changing Behavior and Life Skills......Page 268
Prochaska’s Stages of Readiness to Change......Page 269
Brief Negotiation......Page 270
Suggested Readings and Bibliography......Page 272
Appendix Youth Health Program Software......Page 276
Index......Page 288