title: [The range of adolescent medicine].
abstract: Adolescent medicine is situated "in between" and "on the borders of" different areas of medical specialisations: psychiatry, gynaecology, preventive medicine, paediatrics and internal medicine (and their respective subspecialties).The specificity of adolescent medicine is the evaluation of clinical situations with a particular consideration of the successive stages of the adolescent bio-psycho social development (puberty, identity construction, modifications of the relations to the peer-groups and the family). A special interest goes also to preventive aspects, especially concerning experimental and risk behaviours. The medical approach to adolescents requires a particular attention to psychosocial aspects when confronted with somatic complaints and inversely a good somatic evaluation in front of adolescents suffering from complexes psychosocial situations.
authors.affiliation: Adoleszentensprechstunde, Hôpital des Enfants (Kinderspital), Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève (HUG).
authors.forename: Marianne
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caflisch
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000295:Adolescent Medicine / Q000379:methods* / Q000639:trends*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D001523:Mental Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000628:therapy*; D013557:Switzerland