Publisher's Synopsis
Focusing on the "well child exam", this book offers recommendations for practitioners who see adolescent patients. It provides a framework for the organization and content of routine health care for 11-21 year olds. Recommendations include those directed at: dietary habits, eating disorders and obesity; sexual development; physical fitness; use of alcohol, other drugs and anabolic steroids; need for immunizations; treatment of severe or recurrent depression; and risk of hypertension and hyperlipidemia.
