Emotional Problems of Adolescence

Abstract

The questions raised in this conference are typical of those asked by family physicians in regard to management of emotional disturbances of adolescence. They deal with obesity, truancy and school phobia, juvenile delinquency, the use of hypnosis, inability to adapt to the college setting, comparative stresses in an urban and in an agrarian culture, the relative importance of constitutional versus environmental factors, and related subjects. The authors emphasize that the practice of preventive psychiatry by the nonpsychiatric physician can be most rewarding in managing the adolescent.