Contents -- Preface -- Foreword -- About the Author -- 1. Medical and Paramedical Visits -- Overview -- Caring for Teens and Young Adults -- Interviewing Adolescents -- Preventive Services Guidelines -- Recommended Immunizations -- Physical Health Screening -- Laboratory Screening -- Preventive Adolescent Risk Screening -- Risk Behaviors of Adolescents in Developed Countries -- Clinical Prioritization of Risk Behaviors (priority order, but not necessarily a severity order) -- Health Education -- Anticipatory Guidance -- Confidentiality -- The Physician's Role in Maintaining and Breaching Confidentiality -- Consent and Treatment -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 2. Growth and Development -- Overview -- Physical Growth -- Sexual Development -- Delayed Puberty -- Psychosocial Development and Behavior -- Early Adolescence -- Characteristic behaviors of early adolescence -- Characteristic behaviors of middle adolescence -- Characteristic behaviors of late adolescence -- Summary -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 3. Dermatology -- Overview -- Acne -- Medications -- Common Conditions -- Dermatitis -- Vectors -- Bacterial Infections -- Viral Infections -- Fungal Infections -- Sun Exposure and Skin Cancer -- Sunscreen -- Sunburn -- Melanoma and Nevi -- Identifying Melanoma -- Tattoos and Body Piercing -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 4. Chronic Disease Management -- Overview -- Medical Compliance and Self-Management -- Self-Esteem and Compliance -- Decision Making and Goal Setting -- Resiliency -- Optimizing Self-Management Skills and Compliance via Health Education -- Specific Issues: Asthma, Diabetes, Eating Disorders -- Asthma -- Diabetes -- Diagnosis of Type 1 Diabetes -- Diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes -- Eating Disorders -- Obesity and Overweight -- The Dying Adolescent -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography.

5. Fatigue and Psychosomatic Illnesses -- Overview -- Fatigue -- Chronic Fatigue -- Evaluation -- Management -- Mononucleosis & EB-Virus -- Management -- Psychosomatic Illnesses -- Stress and Symptoms -- The Triad of Anger, Fear, and Stress - then Reactive Depression -- Making Psychosomatic Diagnoses -- Chronic Chest Pain -- Chronic Abdominal Pain -- Headache -- Differential Diagnosis of Headaches -- Management -- Hypertension -- Management -- General Management of Psychosomatic Symptoms -- Behavioral and Environmental Interventions -- Counseling and Psychotherapy -- Relaxation Training, Self-Hypnosis, Biofeedback and Other Adjunct Interventions -- Summary -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 6. Psychology and Behavior -- Overview -- Anxiety, Depression, Suicide -- Coping with Anger and Fear -- Anxiety -- Depression and Bipolar Disorder -- Psychosis -- Violence, Conduct Disorder, and Abuse -- Prostitution -- Maltreatment, Emotional and Physical Abuse -- Sexual Abuse -- Legal Reporting Issues -- Substance Use: Alcohol, Tobacco, Other Drug Use -- Tobacco Use -- Tobacco Prevention -- Alcohol Use -- Psychoactive Substance Abuse -- Methamphetamine Abuse -- Acute Reactions to Drugs of Abuse -- Diagnosis and Treatment of Substance Abuse Disorder -- Testing Adolescents for Substances of Abuse -- Clinical Issues -- Ethical Issues -- Attention Deficit Disorder -- Management -- Other Psychological and Behavioral Issues for Adolescents -- Media Exposure -- Internet Risks -- Adolescent Drivers -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 7. Adolescent Sexuality and Reproductive Health -- Overview -- Adolescent Sexual Psychology -- Sexual Health Services -- Current Cervical Cancer Screening Recommendations -- Parenthood Desire and Sexual Experience -- Sexual Experience -- Adolescent Pregnancy -- Laboratory Diagnosis -- Contraception -- The Male Condom.

Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Injection (Depo-Provera) -- Oral Contraceptives -- Emergency Contraception -- Other Contraceptives -- Health Care for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Questioning (GLBTQ) Youths -- Variations in Sexual Development -- Issues for GLBTQ Youths -- Clinical Issues -- Clinical Approach to GLBTQ Youths -- Medical Management -- Female Reproductive Disorders -- Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding (DUB) -- Breast Disorders -- Male Reproductive Disorders -- Abdominal Pain -- Urinary Tract Infection -- Evaluation and Treatment -- Sexually Transmitted Infections -- Sex Education -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 8. Orthopedic Conditions and Sports -- Overview -- Preparticipation Sports Evaluation -- Scoliosis -- Kyphosis -- Syncope -- Common Orthopedic Conditions in the Adolescent -- Head Trauma -- Limb Injuries -- Ankle Sprains -- Overuse Disorders -- Performance-Enhancing Substances and Techniques -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 9. Practice Management and New Technologies -- Overview -- Adolescent Health Informatics -- Communications with Adolescent Patients -- Medical Education Technology -- Computerized Adolescent Health Screening and Assessment -- Computer-Assisted Health Promotion and Adolescent Preventive Services -- Health Promotion and Health Education Using Video, DVD, Multimedia -- Administration of Video in Medical Settings -- Computer-Assisted Instruction (CAI) Games -- Interactive Patient Health Education Multimedia -- Emerging Technologies and Future Trends -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography -- 10. Health Promotion -- Health Guidance and Counseling -- Changing Youths' Health Behaviors -- Culturally-Specific Health Education -- Changing Behavior and Life Skills -- Prochaska's Stages of Readiness to Change -- Brief Negotiation -- Suggested Readings and Bibliography.

Appendix Youth Health Program Software -- Index.