What is Adolescent Medicine?
Adolescence is a transition period between childhood and adulthood. It is a normal developmental period filled with major changes in physical maturity and sexuality, cognitive processes (ways of thinking and thought content), emotional feelings, and relationships with others. Addressing the health care needs of this age group requires not only addressing identified health concerns, but also considering the complicated interactions of developmental changes on healthcare needs, the effectiveness of treatment, health education and health promotion. As adolescents begin to take responsibility for their own health, education and promotion of preventive health care is very important. Teaching preventive health care (about topics such as healthy eating habits, general wellness / health topics, pregnancy prevention, sexually transmitted diseases, the effects of smoking and substance use) and providing health education regarding specific health care needs to adolescents requires special conside
