title: Inspiring healthy adolescent choices: a rationale for and guide to strength promotion in primary care.
abstract: The social, emotional, and biological health of adolescents requires their development as autonomous beings who make responsible decisions about their own health. Clinicians can assist in this development by adopting a strength-based approach to adolescent health care, which applies concepts from positive youth development to the medical office setting.
authors.affiliation: The Vermont Child Health Improvement Program, Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA. paula.duncan@uvm.edu <paula.duncan@uvm.edu>
authors.forename: Paula M
authors.initials: PM
authors.lastname: Duncan
authors.forename: Ana C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Garcia
authors.forename: Barbara L
authors.initials: BL
authors.lastname: Frankowski
authors.forename: Peggy A
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Carey
authors.forename: Emily A
authors.initials: EA
authors.lastname: Kallock
authors.forename: Rebecca D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Dixon
authors.forename: Judith S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Shaw
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000523:psychology*; D016497:Adolescent Health Services; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003376:Counseling / Q000379:methods; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care; D040242:Risk Reduction Behavior; D012309:Risk-Taking