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Annotation: This book discusses evidence-based interventions for children and adolescents with severe emotional and behavioral disorders. It is divided into four parts: (1) context; (2) comprehensive interventions; (3) targeted interventions in education, substance abuse, and mental health, and (4) conclusion and commentary. Topics include case management, multisystemic therapy, mentoring, family support and education, special education best practices, and policy implications. One chapter provides an annotated review of psychosocial and psychopharmacological interventions in table format focussing on four common childhood disorders or related symptom patterns. References, information about the contributors, and an index conclude this book.

Contact: Oxford University Press, 198 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016, Telephone: (800) 451-7556 Secondary Telephone: (212)726-6000 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.oup.com/us Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 0-19-513457-5.

Keywords: Evidence based medicine, Adolescent mental health, Affective disorders, Child mental health, Community mental health centers, Family support services, Mentors, Psychosocial development, Special education, Youth development

Annotation: This document refines the goals and objectives of a strategic plan to better understand the developmental processes involved in forming cognitive, learning, emotional, social, and physical behaviors, and the biological and environmental factors that make infants, children, and adolescents more susceptible to behavioral disorders or to adopting risk-taking and violent behaviors. Chapter sections includes the strategic planning process, an outline of the scientific goals of the strategic plan, the importance of research technologies and resources, and the need for integrated training and education. The appendix includes a roster of working groups advisors.

Contact: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, P.O. Box 3006, Rockville, MD 20847, Telephone: (800) 370-2943 Secondary Telephone: (888) 320-6942 Fax: (866) 760-5947 Web Site: https://www.nichd.nih.gov/Pages/index.aspx Available from the website.

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Keywords: Adolescent development, Behavioral medicine, Behavioral sciences, Child development, Developmental psychology, Research, Strategic plans

Annotation: This issue of Adolescent Medicine, State of the Art Reviews (which is presented in book form), highlights the major themes of adolescent health. The issue begins with a historical perspective on adolescent health. A series of articles that follow outline many key topics in adolescent health care: sexuality, family and parenting, media impact, tobacco, substance abuse, violence, resiliency, adolescent driving, sports medicine, financing, and the impact of technology on the new era. The articles include statistical information presented in tables and figures, and references. The issue contains an index.

Contact: Hanley and Belfus, 210 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Telephone: (215) 546-4995 Contact Phone: (800) 962-1892 Available in libraries. Document Number: ISBN 1-56053-329-3.

Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Adolescent health, Adolescent medicine, Adolescent sexuality, Adolescents, Families, Financing, Mass media, Parenting, Resilience, Sports medicine, Substance abuse, Technology, Tobacco use, Violence

Annotation: This book provides information on communication, diagnosis, and therapy for adolescent patients. The authors emphasize the role of the caregiver as a sensitive counselor when interacting with adolescent patients. It is a straightforward and practical reference which presents a review of the most commonly encountered adolescent issues, including: growth and development, chronic illness and disability, substance abuse, sexuality, common medical complaints, adolescent psychosocial concerns such as suicide, depression and eating disorders.

Contact: Little, Brown and Company, Hatchette Book Group USA, 237 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017, Telephone: (800) 759-0190 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.hatchettebookgroupusa.com Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Adolescent development, Adolescent health, Adolescent medicine, Adolescent sexuality, Adolescents, Asthma, Behavior problems, Chronic fatigue syndrome, Chronic illnesses and disabilities, Contraception, Depression, Diabetes mellitus, Eating disorders, Headaches, Homosexuality, Infectious mononucleosis, Menstruation, Mental health, Obesity, Pregnant adolescents, Psychosexual development, Sexually transmitted diseases, Sports injuries, Sports injuries, Substance abusers, Suicide, Thyroid diseases, Urinary tract infections

Annotation: This book was developed for physicians and other health care professionals involved in the treatment of adolescents. This book is divided into five major parts: (1) principles of adolescent medicine; (2) adolescent medical disorders; (3) psychosocial issues and the adolescent; (4) adolescent gynecology, urologic, and sexual issues; and (5) adolescent surgery.

Contact: Quality Medical Publishing, Inc., 2248 Welsch Industrial Ct., Saint Louis, MO 63146, Telephone: (800) 348-7808 Secondary Telephone: (314) 878-7808 Fax: (314) 878-9937 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.qmp.com/ Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescent medicine, Chronic illnesses and disabilities

Annotation: This book traces the history of adolescent medicine, drawing on oral histories of physicians in the field, patient records, medical and popular advice literature, and letters from adolescents and parents. The book examines the interplay between the emergence of adolescent medicine and changes in American family relationships, youth culture, popular perceptions about young people, and the social experience of adolescence. It traces the development of adolescent medicine from its origins at Boston Children's Hospital in the 1950s to the present, with special attention to the role of young people themselves. It discusses how the mid-twentieth-century emergence of adolescent medicine has resulted from a combination of social changes and has placed adolescents at the center of the national agenda.

Contact: Harvard University Press, 79 Garden Street, Cambridge, MA 02138, Telephone: (800) 405-1619 Secondary Telephone: 401-531-2800 Fax: (800) 406-9145 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.hup.harvard.edu $35.00. Document Number: ISBN 0-674-21451-7.

Keywords: Adolescent medicine, History, Oral history

Annotation: This book provide Guidelines for Adolescent Preventive Services (GAPS), a comprehensive package of recommendations for primary care physicians and other health providers who see adolescent patients in clinical settings. The interventions suggested by these guidelines are designed to be delivered during a series of annual preventive service health visits between the ages of 11 and 21, during which focus is placed on health guidance; immunizations; and screening for physical, emotional, and behavioral conditions. The recommendations were developed by the American Medical Association (AMA)

Contact: Wolters Kluwer Health, Lippincott Williams and Wilkins, P.O. Box 1620, Hagerstown, MD 21741, Telephone: (800) 638-3030 Secondary Telephone: (301) 223-23000 Fax: (301) 223-2400 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.lww.com Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent health services, Adolescents, Anticipatory guidance, Preventive medicine, Resources for professionals

Annotation: This book presents current review articles on the medical aspects of adolescent substance abuse and addiction. The topics include risk factors and behaviors; ethnic and cultural factors; office assessment by primary care physician; alcohol, nicotine, illicit drugs, anabolic steroids; drug testing; treatment issues; the influence of the media; influence of drug use on sexual activity; trauma and clinical issues; and psychiatric and developmental issues.

Contact: Hanley and Belfus, 210 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Telephone: (215) 546-4995 Contact Phone: (800) 962-1892 Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescent medicine, Substance abuse, Substance dependence

Annotation: This textbook presents information on adolescent medicine, focusing on conditions that are affected by adolescence or have a special effect on adolescents. The text is organized in four sections: scientific background, including data about adolescent development and the biology-behavior interface; the clinical approach, dealing with the practice of adolescent medicine and including a section on prevention; medical; and psychological. Specialists in adolescent medicine, pediatrics, nutrition, family and internal medicine, psychiatry, clinical psychology, and other fields contribute chapters. It ends with appendices on reference data for physical assessment of adolescents, physical growth, pubertal maturation, physical fitness and nutrition, and endocrinology of puberty.

Contact: Elsevier, Health Sciences Division, 1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1800, Philadelphia, PA 19103-2822, Telephone: (215) 239-3900 Fax: (215) 239-3990 Web Site: http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent behavior, Adolescent health, Adolescent medicine, Textbooks

Annotation: This volume was written for primary care physicians who have a particular interest in adolescents and who are looking for information that will help them care for the young athletes in their practice. Topics discussed include the sport physical; medical exclusion from sport; menstruation; stress; status of adolescent fitness; steroids; death on the playing field; epidemiology of sport injuries; management of soft tissue injuries; head injuries; catastrophic head and neck injuries; overuse syndromes of the shoulder and arm, and overuse syndromes of the back and legs in adolescents.

Contact: Hanley and Belfus, 210 South 13th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19107, Telephone: (215) 546-4995 Contact Phone: (800) 962-1892 Available in libraries.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Adolescents, Injuries, Injury prevention, Menstruation, Sports medicine, Steroids, Stress

Annotation: This book provides materials from the U. S. Preventive Services Task Force and the Canadian Task Force on the Periodic Health Examination that dealt with the provision of preventive services and the use of screening procedures for the early detection of treatable conditions. The chapters cover a wide range of problems, dealing with some from a single perspective, others from the different vantage points of the United States and Canada, and presents a compilation of the conclusions. It is a useful guide for preventing disease in the present state of knowledge. Systematic application of the means for effective intervention are outlined. Topics include perinatal medicine, prevention in childhood, societal problems, skeletal and dental disorders, cancer, eye and ear disorders, diabetes mellitus, urinary tract disorders, and cardiovascular disease.

Keywords: Adolescent pregnancy, Adolescents, Adults, Children, Cost effectiveness, Disease prevention, Infants, Mental health, Perinatal care, Preventive medicine, Sexually transmitted diseases, Substance abuse

Annotation: This Journal of Adolescent Health Care supplement contains papers presented at the symposium, "Health Care of the Emerging Adult: Implications for the Practitioner, " held January 1986. Papers address adolescent development and the role of physicians in helping adolescents make a safe and healthy transition from childhood to adulthood. Topics of papers include the normal process, the underlying mechanisms that may lead to positive and/or negative ramifications of certain behaviors, and some of the health problems that affect an adolescent's growth, development, and function.

Contact: Elsevier, Health Sciences Division, 1600 John F. Kennedy Boulevard, Suite 1800, Philadelphia, PA 19103-2822, Telephone: (215) 239-3900 Contact Phone: (212) 370-5520 Fax: (215) 239-3990 Web Site: http://www.us.elsevierhealth.com Available in libraries. Document Number: HRSA Info. Ctr. MCHB238.

Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent health services, Adolescent medicine

Annotation: This book, evolving from work done on an NCCAN grant at Penn State University, is based on an in-depth study of 64 families from 1981 through 1983, conducted to understand the origin, dynamics and outcomes of abuse and neglect in the lives of the adolescents involved. This 'Family Intervention Project' investigated psychological and social aspects of two-parent families coping with adolescents' behavior, ranging from normal to seriously pathological. The study focused on the degree to which parent adolescent relations were at risk for emotional or physical abuse. The book provides some theories concerning adolescent maltreatment, and concerning child abuse and juvenile delinquency. The concept of high risk is presented and defined as are the measurement tools for determining that high risk and the resulting characteristics of high risk families. Factors of adolescent competence, behavior problems, socioeconomic stress, changes in family structure (as in step-families) are explored. Current interventions, prevention strategies with parents, support strategies for adolescents are discussed. Future prospects and programs for intervention are presented along with current evaluations or indicated needs for evaluation. A final chapter discusses the investigators' prognosis for troubled adolescents in troubled families.

Contact: Walter de Gruyter, Inc., 545 Eighth Avenue, Suite 1650, New York, NY 10018, Telephone: (212) 564-9223 Fax: (212) 564-9224 E-mail: [email protected] Web Site: http://www.degruyter.com/ $41.95 plus $3.50 shipping and handling.

Keywords: Adolescents, Alcohol abuse, Behavioral sciences, Child abuse, Clinical medicine, Counseling, Crisis intervention, Drug abuse, Family violence, Injury prevention, Physical abuse, Research, Risk factors, Socioeconomic status, Survey tools

Annotation: This report presents the 1974 National Health Council forum on Public and Private Responsibility for Health Care Under Age 21. There were addresses and discussions on health care of children and youth in America, national health care priorities for children and youth, child health services under Medicaid, changing public/private sector roles, developing a health strategy for children and youth, health manpower, government policy, and future challenges. Four appendices at the end list forum participants, National Health Council staff, 1974 forum evaluation, and Declaration of Rights of Child.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child health, Education, Health maintenance organizations, Health personnel, Health services, Medicaid, Preventative medicine, Private sector, Public health services

Annotation: This volume includes a selection of papers on various aspects of adolescent medicine. The volume includes papers discussing (1) youth and society, (2) growth and development in adolescence, (3) genetic disorders in adolescents and young adults, (4) new dimensions in adolescent psychotherapy, and (5) health care for the economically disadvantaged adolescent, as well as many other topics. Each paper is written by a different author.

Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent medicine, Adolescent psychiatry, Adolescents, Adolescents with special health care needs, Mental health

Annotation: This book offers guidelines for dealing with adolescent patients based on a philosophy of comprehensive care. The author surveys the adolescent's development, role in society, health needs and major medical problems, sex education, substance abuse, rock-related deafness, obesity, skin problems, sexually transmitted diseases, communication problems, and rehabilitation.

Keywords: Adolescent development, Adolescent health, Adolescent medicine, Communication disorders, Deafness, Obesity, Sexuality education, Sexually transmitted diseases, Skin rashes, Substance abuse

Annotation: This report discusses school health policy, provides background information on school health topics, and outlines some techniques used by school health services. The report was prepared for physicians but will also be of interest to educators. Topics discussed include the relationship between schools and health services; the school health education medical specialty; health screening of students; special school health needs of adolescents; children with special health needs and schools; academic performance and school attendance; physical fitness and sports medicine; the health of school personnel; and cooperation and communication between physicians and educators.

Keywords: Adolescent health, Child health, Children with developmental disabilities, Children with special health care needs, Collaboration, Confidentiality, Education, Emergency medical services for children, Health policy, Health promotion, Health screening, Health screening, Human development, Medical education, Occupational safety and health, Physical fitness, School attendance, School failure, School health education, School health programs, School health services, School personnel, Schools, Sports medicine, Tests

Annotation: This issue of "Pediatric Annals" discusses some of the physical and psychosocial problems encountered during adolescence. Articles address chronic chest pain, abnormal vaginal bleeding, hyperventilation syndrome, an office assessment of substance abuse, laboratory evaluation of sexually transmitted diseases, and acute and long-term consequences of adolescents who choose abortions.

Keywords: Adolescent health services, Adolescent medicine