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American Academy of Pediatrics textbook of adolescent health care / editor in chief, Martin M. Fisher ; coeditors, Elizabeth M. Alderman, Richard E. Kreipe, Walter D. Rosenfield.

History of adolescent medicine and health care -- Epidemiology of mortalities and morbidities in adolescents -- International adolescent health -- Normal pubertal physical growth and development -- Adolescent brain and cognitive changes -- Adolescent psychosical development and behavior -- Adolescent sexual development -- Medical history -- Physical examination and laboratory screening -- The approach to symptoms in the adolescent patient -- Legal and ethical issues in adolescent health care -- Adherence issues -- Screening in adolescent health care -- Immunizations -- Anticipatory guidance -- Adolescent nutrition and physical activity -- Complementary and alternative medicine -- Pain in adolescents: pathophysiology and management -- Palliative care and psychological aspects of death and dying in adolescence -- Pharmacologic considerations -- Health policy and financing for adolescent and young adult health services -- The adolescent-friendly practice -- Documentation, coding, and billing -- The adolescent in-patient unit -- School-based health care -- College health -- Health care of incarcerated adolescents -- Health care of adolescents in military settings -- Adolescents in foster care -- Immigrant adolescents -- Transition of adolescents with special health care needs to adulthood -- Solid organ transplantation -- Communication between parents and adolescents -- Parenting the adolescent -- Divorce, separation, and blended families -- Adoption and adolescence -- Adolescents with lesbian or gay parents -- Family systems approaches to adolescent health and illness -- Peers -- Socioeconomic status -- The media -- Computers, technology, and the internet -- Cultural considerations in adolescent health care -- Religion and spirituality -- Cults and adolescents -- Environmental health -- Adolescents at work -- Disasters -- Adolescent sexual behaviors -- Issues affecting gay, lesbian, and bisexual youth -- Medical treatment of the transgender adolescent -- Contraception -- Sexually transmitted infections -- Adolescent pregnancy -- Adolescent parenthood -- Abortion in adolescents -- Sexual dysfunction -- Physiology of menstruation --