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This issue focuses on many apparently disparate concerns of physical and mental health, sexuality, and scientific and sociological issues that have an impact on the primary health care of adolescents. Topics in What's New in Adolescent Clinical Care? include: • The Non-Medical Use of Prescription Drugs. •Screening for Substance Abuse in the Office Setting. • Strength Based Interviewing. • Dropout Crisis Impacting America: Can We Turn It Around?. • Management of the Adolescent Concussion Victim. • Adolescent Contraceptive Care for the Practicing Pediatrician. • Social Networking and Adolescents. • An Approach to Obesity Management in Primary Care. • Understanding Adolescent Brain Development and its Implications for the Clinician. • Adolescent Contraceptive Care for the Practicing Pediatrician/ • And More...

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American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Adolescent Health; Richard B. Heyman, MD; Edward M. Gotlieb, MD.The American Academy of Pediatrics Section on Adolescent Health (SOAH), founded in 1978, brings together both general pediatricians interested in adolescent health issues as well as adolescent medicine specialists. It provides an educational and networking forum with the goal of improving and enhancing the care of the adolescent population. The SOAH executive committee leadership works closely with the AAP Committee on Adolescence (COA) to bring policy and education together, both for providers and for the families/adolescents they serve.

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