title: Adolescents: their special physical, social and metapsychologic needs.
abstract: This essay reviews the universal physical, sociocultural and metapsychologic needs of human beings as manifested in adolescents, the circumstances that interfere with the satisfaction of their needs, diagnosis of the resulting clinical aberrations, and the ethnic, sociocultural, and other vectors that influence seven vectors of effective therapy.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001294:Attitude to Health; D001828:Body Image; D002657:Child Development; D003466:Cultural Characteristics; D006801:Humans; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012017:Referral and Consultation; D012917:Social Adjustment