How important is the direct and explaining ...

How important is the direct and clarifying conversation with adolescents shows a recent U.S. study, which gives an idea of ??the current situation of adolescents in the United States, and whose data speak for themselves: Every 3 seconds a teenager zaberemenivaet. Every 1-2 minutes a teenager giving birth. Every 78 seconds a teenager attempts suicide. Every 90 minutes, killing one teenager or young preprinimaet attempted suicide-properties. More than 1 million teens a year run away from home. Every 20 minutes a teenager dies in a traffic accident. Based on the article Gadner W. und Gadner J. Verweigerung, Abwehr, Widerstand - die Problematik der Gesprachsfuhrung mit Jugendlichen. Ein Leitfaden fur die Praxis. / / Radiat.prax. 55, (1999), 721-728. Translated from the German - M. Bogdanov article was published on the website http://www.medafarm.ru

Psychosomatic problems and stress in adolescents

Stress - is a universal phenomenon in the lives of modern teenagers, affecting their health and well-being. High levels of stress may be associated with distress and somatic symptoms, forcing the teenager to seek medical help. Pediatricians and other professionals involved in adolescent health, often found in patients with these symptoms and can not adequately explain the state of an organic cause. Diagnosis and management of these teenagers is a lot of problems and requires awareness of the role of stress and other psychological factors in the development and preservation of the patient's symptoms. The purpose of this discussion - to give the clinician an idea of ??links between stress and somatic symptoms in adolescents and to determine methods of evaluation and treatment of such symptoms in adolescents, which among other things are important medical or psychiatric conditions. Psychosomatic disorders Psychosomatic disorders are usually defined as those in which psychological factors are components in the development of an aggravation or continuation of disease. The relative term "somatization" refers to the tendency to report physical symptoms that have no pathophysiological basis, or significantly exceed what can be identified on the basis of objective medical data. Psychosomatic symptoms and somatization differ from the simulation, in which the patient truthfully report their feelings and do not consciously use these symptoms to manipulyarovaniya or control others or situations. The teenager and his family are usually related to the symptoms of organic disease and, therefore, seek medical help. Symptoms vary in severity and duration, may be acute or chronic, and thus may or may not have organic disease. Since the primary symptoms are caused by psychosocial factors, the focus of intervention on these factors are very important for improving the symptoms. It should be noted that the term psychosomatic is increasingly replaced by terms such as psychophysiological, and biopsychosocial biobehavioralny - a term increasingly reflect the increasingly understanding that psychosocial and biological factors are indivisible and interdependent aspects of all diseases.