title: Managing Adolescents and Their Parents: Avoiding Pitfalls and Traps.
abstract: The author proposes an effective set of physician-adolescent-parent interactions-or transactions-that flexibly integrates the patient's current level of cognitive and psychosocial development with two significant variables: the nature of the condition involved and the status of adolescent-parent communication.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, Building 27, Route 81, UCI Medical Center, 101 The City Drive, Orange CA, 92668, USA.
authors.initials: AD
authors.lastname: Hofmann