title: Adolescent Abortion: Correlates and Consequences.
abstract: This chapter is organized into five sections that discuss the characteristics of adolescent aborters, the decision-making process, preabortion counseling, medical management, and postabortion adjustment. The purpose of the chapter is to help clinicians differentiate aborters from childbearers, to become informed participants in adolescents' pregnancy-resolution decision making, to manage medical aspects of the procedure, and to prepare patients for a healthy adjustment afterward.
authors.affiliation: Boston University School of Social Work, 264 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
authors.initials: VG
authors.lastname: Cartoof