1. Objectifs

Intentions :
Présenter les réalités vécues à l’âge de l’adolescence et explorer certaines pistes de réflexion et certaines interventions possibles du médecin auprès des parents.

2. Méthode

Type de traitement des données :
Réflexion critique

3. Résumé

« The author reviews the principal concerns of adolescence, the different levels of change (physical, intellectual, psychological, emotional and social) and what the adolescent goes through to become an adult. He discusses some of the new challenges facing today’s teenagers. The article comments on many attitudes and gives advice that was successfully tested with parents. The family physician will find useful information to guide his counselling of parents and possibly even for himself if he has teenager(s) of his own. » (p. 43)