Adolescents undergo rapid physical, psychological and social developmental changes that result in management challenges, communication issues, patterns of disease and symptom presentations that are different from children or adults. This can be challenging for health professionals, who rarely have had specific training in dealing with the young people they meet in their clinical work.

This ABC covers topics surrounding adolescent development, sexual behaviour and substance misuse, along with education and preventative strategies. It also features other adolescent health problems such as self-harm, eating disorders, and psychosomatic presentations.

The chapters include:

• Adolescent development

• Consent, competence, and confidentiality

• Epidemiology of health and illness

• Adolescents in primary care

• Chronic illness and disability

• Health promotion

• Sexual health, contraception, and teenage pregnancy

• Substance misuse: alcohol, tobacco, inhalants, and other drugs

• Common mental health problems

• Suicide and deliberate self harm in young people

• Eating disorders and weight problems

• Fatigue and somatic symptoms

This book is a valuable resource for all those who deal with adolescent patients in primary care, emergency departments, and hospital and outpatient settings.

CHERYL CARTER NEW and JAMES AARON QUICK are the sole owners and directors of Polaris Corporation. Polaris teaches grantsmanship to nonprofit organizations (The United Way National Training Center, the Non-Profit Center, and the Kellogg Foundation), primary and secondary schools, and for-profit and nonprofit healthcare facilities using three primary mediums: workshops, consulting services, and resource publishing. They lead over 100 workshops that have taught more than 4,000 people per year how to develop and plan projects, research funders, and write grants.

The famous ABC series, as serialised in the BMJ

Adolescents undergo rapid physical, psychological and social developmental changes that result in management challenges, communication issues, patterns of disease and symptom presentations that are different from children or adults. This can be challenging for health professionals, who rarely have had specific training in dealing with the young people they meet in their clinical work.

This ABC covers topics surrounding adolescent development, sexual behaviour and substance misuse, along with education and preventative strategies. It also features other adolescent health problems such as self-harm, eating disorders and psychosomatic presentations.

This book is a valuable resource for all those who deal with adolescent patients in primary care, emergency departments, and hospital and outpatient settings.

Russell Viner Consultant in Adolescent Medicine, Great Ormond Street Hospital, London

1 Adolescent development.

2 Consent, competence, and confidentiality.

3 Epidemiology of health and illness.

4 Adolescents in primary care.

5 Chronic illness and disability.

6 Health promotion.

7 Sexual health, contraception, and teenage pregnancy.

8 Substance misuse: alcohol, tobacco, inhalants, and other drugs.

9 Common mental health problems.

10 Suicide and deliberate self harm in young people.

11 Eating disorders and weight problems.

12 Fatigue and somatic symptoms