title: The institutionalized adolescent: the pediatrician's role as youth advocate.
abstract: In addition to dealing with health problems that an adolescent may contract before institutionalization, the pediatrician should be concerned with conditions arising from the institutional setting itself that can affect the adolescent's health or impede the development of adolescent "tasks."
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002651:Child Advocacy; D002674:Child, Institutionalized / Q000523:psychology*; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007326:Institutionalization / Q000639:trends; D010358:Patient Participation; D010372:Pediatrics; D010553:Personality Development; D010819:Physician's Role; D000297:Psychology, Adolescent; D012380:Role; D014481:United States