Reading Material

Previous residents have put together a set of articles on topics essential to an adolescent medicine rotation. They wanted the articles to be practical, concise, and interesting. This set of articles was intended to be complete but not extensive. Please choose several articles from each section to read during your rotation.

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General Adolescent Medicine

• Washington State Minor Consent Laws
• Teens' Right to Privacy Brochure
• Providing Healthcare to Minors
• Clinical Evaluation of Substance Abuse
• Management of Substance Abuse
• Acne Vulgaris: A Treatment Update
• Caring for Gay and Lesbian Teens

GYN

• Contraception in the Adolescent: An Update
• Sexually Transmitted Diseases in Adolescents

Eating Disorders

• Eating Disorders in Adolescents and Young Adults
• Children and Adolescents With Eating Disorders: The State of the Art
• Outpatient Nutrition Assessment & Intervention for Eating Disorders

Headaches, Biofeedback, Stress

• Using Biofeedback to Make Childhood Headaches Less of a Pain
• Comprehensive Evaluation and Treatment of Recurrent Pediatric Headache
• Stress Management Techniques in Childhood and Adolescence
• Behavioral Management of Childhood Headache
• Recurrent Headache in Adolescents: Nonreferred Versus Clinic Population
• Biofeedback
• Psychosocial Factors Associated with Headache in Junior High Students

Reflex Neurovascular Dystrophy (RND)

• RND Parent Informational Handout

Sports Medicine

• Making the Most of the Sports Physical
• Exam of the Adolescent Athlete I
• Exam of the Adolescent Athlete II
• Medical Concerns in the Female Athlete
• Overuse Injuries

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Topic Summaries
Past residents have written short summaries of chapters from Adolescent Health Care: A Practical Guide by Lawrence S. Neinstein. Feel free to read any that are of interest to you.

• Acne Vulgaris
• Adolescent Chest Pain
• Adolescent Pregnancy
• Amenorrhea
• Cancer
• Cardiac Risk Factors and Hyperlipidemia
• Chronic Illness
• Club Drugs
• Common Ortho Problems
• Delayed Puberty
• Depression in Adolescents
• Dysfunctional Uterine Bleeding
• Fatigue
• Gay & Lesbian Youth
• Hypertension in Adolescents
• Infectious Mononucleosis
• Kissing Tonsils and Diffuse Patchy Infiltrates
• Learning Disorders
• Marijuana
• PAP Smears and Abnormal Cervical Cytology
• Pelvic Inflammatory Disease (PID)
• Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome
• Sleep Disorders
• Smoking Cessation
• Vaginitis & Cervicitis

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