Full Description
This book provides a quick and accessible resource for and managing common issues pertinent to adolescents and young adults in the community, ensuring age-appropriate health care delivery to this distinct and vulnerable group with complex and unique healthcare needs. Providing high-quality health care to this population requires knowledge and understanding of a broad range of considerations, including managing and promoting pubertal development, identity formation, chronic non-communicable diseases, substance use, violence, adolescent pregnancy, sexually transmitted and blood-borne infections, and mental health disorders, all of which are addressed here.
Key Features:
Focused on the primary areas of concern for family physicians when working with this patient group
Provides a structured approach to addressing the key components of adolescent and young adult health and wellbeing, including exercise, sleep, and nutrition, and when to refer
Includes invaluable guidance to ensure appropriate support for vulnerable sub-populations including those with mental health disorders, child soldiers and asylum-seeking or trafficked youth
Practical and accessible, with an international perspective, this book equips family physicians, general practitioners and the wider healthcare team to care effectively for adolescents and young adults in primary care settings.
Contents
1. Adolescence and Puberty: Stages of Adolescence and Identity Formation 2. Age-appropriate Care of the Adolescent and Young Adult in the Office 3. Supporting Teens and Parents of Teens: The Triadic Collaboration 4. Chronic Illness 5. Asthma 6. Neurodivergent Adolescence 7. Adolescent Mental Health 8. Disordered Eating 9. Sexual Health 10. Adolescent Athletes 11. Marginalized Adolescents 12. Substance Use 13. Preventive health - Exercise, Nutrition, and Sleep
