Adolescent Rheumatology is the first single source text that focuses on how adolescent specific aspects impact on rheumatic conditions, and cross references disease specific information from general rheumatology textbooks.

Adolescent Rheumatology includes:

• differences in presentation, diagnosis and management between pediatric, adolescent and adult rheumatology care
• adolescent health training issues
• quality of care in adolescent rheumatology
• communication with young people
• a full chapter written by young people attending adolescent rheumatology clinics

Contents

1. Being a Teenager in the Twenty-First Century
2. The Teenage Brain
3. Growing Pains: Growth and Puberty
4. Creating a Listening Culture: Communicating with Young People
5. "When I Remember to ..." Adherence and Chronic Rheumatic Disease
6. The Disease Spectrum of Adolescent Rheumatology
7. The Young Adult with Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
8. The Young Person with Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
9. Adolescent Chronic Pain
10. The Young Person with Back Pain
11. Adolescents with Joint Pain:A Sports Medicine Perspective
12. The Young Person with Low Bone Mineral Density
13. Health Issues of Adolescents
14. Walking the Talk: Parenting Adolescents with a Chronic Condition
15. Making Connections, Getting Connected: Peer Support and Chronic Rheumatic Disease
16. Growing Up: Transition from Adolescence to Adulthood
17. Education and Training Need for Health Professionals in Adolescent Rheumatology
18. How Can We Develop Adolescent Rheumatology Care That Continually Improves Outcomes for Young People?
19. Young People Have the Last Word

Index

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