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About the editors

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Preface

PART 1: ADOLESCENTS AND YOUNG PEOPLE

Chapter 1 What is adolescence and who are adolescents?
David Bennett and Fiona Robards
                       
Chapter 2 The health of Australian young people
Melissa Kang
                       
Chapter 3 Resilience, risk and protective factors in adolescence
John W Toumbourou, Craig A Olsson, Ian Williams, and Bill Hallam

PART 2: CLINICAL APPROACHES AND YOUTH-FRIENDLY HEALTH CARE

Chapter 4 Youth-friendly practice
Melissa Kang and Lena A Sanci
                       
Chapter 5 Medicolegal and ethical issues in adolescent health care
Melissa Kang and Jane Sanders

PART 3:  COMMON AND IMPORTANT HEALTH ISSUES IN ADOLESCENCE

Chapter 6 Developmental learning disorders
Natalie Silove
                       
Chapter 7 Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder
Simon D Clarke and Michael R Kohn                                   

Chapter 8 Intellectual Disability and Autistic Spectrum Disorder: psychiatric comorbidities in adolescence
David Dossetor

Chapter 9Normal and abnormal pubertal development
Kate Steinbeck and Sally Duke

Chapter 10 Obesity, insulin resistance, and type 2 diabetes mellitus
Louise A Baur and Shubha Srinivasan

Chapter 11 Adolescent gynaecology
Sonia Grover and Melissa Kang

Chapter 12 Sexual and reproductive health
Henrietta Williams, Melissa Kang, and S Rachel Skinner
                       
Chapter 13 Chronic illness in young people
Michele Yeo and Susan M Sawyer

Chapter 14 Transition from paediatric to adult care in chronic illness
Susan Towns and Lynne Brodie

Chapter 15 Youth mental health
Andrew M Chanen, Richard Fraser, and Mark Phelan        

Chapter 16  Adolescent substance use
Yvonne Bonomo and Amanda Norman

Chapter 17 Eating disorders in adolescence
Michael R Kohn, Sloane Madden, Simon D Clarke, and Gail Anderson

Chapter 18 Common skin conditions in adolescence
Peter Hogan

PART 4: COMPLEX, CHALLENGING, AND ILL-DEFINED DISORDERS IN ADOLESCENCE

Chapter 19 Headache
Mick Creati and Mark MacKay
                       
Chapter 20 Chronic fatigue syndrome
Katherine Rowe

Chapter 21 Chronic abdominal pain
Donald Payne

Chapter 22 Somatising disorders
Andrew Court and Andrew Kennedy 

Chapter 23 School non-attendance and school refusal
Donald Payne and Liz Hughes          

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