Weight loss among teenage girls: an adolescent crisis.
This paper is based on the writer's clinical practice with obese adolescent girls. It addresses theoretical aspects of obesity in young girls, presents three cases and then points to selected treatment implications.
D000293:Adolescent; D001835:Body Weight; D004038:Diet, Reducing / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009765:Obesity / Q000523:psychology*; D012917:Social Adjustment