FP Essentials™
Adolescent Health
#507 Edition | August 2021
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Foreword
Communication With Adolescent Patients
Prevention of Injury and Death
Substance Use
Media Use
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In This Edition
- Recognize the complexity of effectively communicating with adolescent patients.
- Describe strategies for building trust with and promoting resilience in adolescent patients.
- Determine a strategy to screen adolescent patients for suicide risk, conduct safety planning, and provide interventions and treatments when appropriate.
- Counsel adolescent patients and their parents about safety interventions to reduce the risk of motor vehicle crashes, prevent poisonings and drownings, and increase firearm safety.
- Determine a strategy to consistently and effectively screen adolescent patients for substance use.
- Apply the Screening, Brief Intervention, and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) strategy for identification and management of substance use disorders.
- Describe the potential effects of media use on the health of adolescents.
- Counsel adolescent patients and their parents on creation and implementation of a Family Media Use Plan.