Adolescent-Friendly Pediatric Practice (IAP)

This book offers some insight into this quandary. It sheds light on various aspects of adolescent health care, keeping-in-mind the latest developments. It provides one with a general understanding of the period of adolescence and the changes that it brings, be they physical, emotional or social. It seamlessly moves on to an approach to adolescent health care, with a special focus on adolescent counseling. It then turns to common problems that may affect adolescents and a guide to their approach and treatment. Finally, it touches on chronic illnesses and the handling of these illnesses. With contributions by eminent adolescent specialists from India and abroad, along with selected articles from IJPP journal volumes over the past decade, this book compiles some of the greatest and most varied approaches to adolescent healthcare.

Key Features :

• odies—Indian Academy of Pediatrics, Adolescent Health Academy (AHA), and Indian Journal of Practical Pediatrics.
• Addresses day-to-day issues of adolescent health encountered in routine clinical practice.
• Will empower the physicians in providing adolescent-friendly care in a scientific manner.
• Chapters have been contributed by eminent pediatricians, adolescent physicians, psychiatrists, and other experts.
• This unique book on adolescent health and medicine will be a useful addition to the armamentarium of pediatricians, psychiatrists, obstetricians and gynecologists, and general practitioners.
• Also, it will be a good tool in the hands of counselors, social scientists, community and public health planners, and family physicians alike.