Bookeditors, William T. O'Donohue, Lauren Woodward Tolle.
Contents:
Basic issues
Introduction: adolescents with chronic illnesses: issues and answers
Introduction to adolescent development
Unique considerations when treating adolescents with chronic illness
Adolescent physiology
Family influence on adolescent treatment outcomes
Ethics and the teen patients
Overextending the overextended: burnout potential in health-care professionals, psychologists, patients, and family members
Integrated care practice guidelines
Type 1 diabetes mellitus
Type 2 diabetes in youth
Integrated care practice guidelines for adolescents with asthma
Juvenile rheumatoid arthritis
Epilepsy
Migraines/chronic headaches
Assessment and management of chronic and recurrent pain in adolescents
Adolescent depression
Cancer
Cystic fibrosis in adolescents
Chronic and end-stage renal disease
Sickle cell disease
Inflammatory bowel disease
Chronic fatigue syndrome
Adolescents living with HIV/AIDS
Health-related quality of life instruments for adolescents with chronic diseases.