Asthma in adolescence
Asthma in adolescence is common: up to one in 7 adolescents have wheezing some of the time. Asthma may start during the teenage years, or it may continue from a younger age. Because the teenage years are times of great changes for young people, ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Patricia Hersch
For three fascinating, disturbing years, writer Patricia Hersch journeyed inside a world that is as familiar as our own children and yet as alien as some exotic culture--the world of adolescence. As a silent, attentive partner, she followed eight ... [... more]
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Adolescence âEUR" what is it?
Adolescence is the time when you begin changing from a kid to an adult. This doesn't happen overnight âEUR" in fact it happens over several years. It starts with puberty when hormone levels rise and start the body changes needed to turn you [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Growing pains
Up to one in three children have pain in the limbs, usually the legs, which does not seem to have any physical cause. Usually this pain comes and goes for a few years and then disappears by about mid adolescence. The pain can be quite mild or bad ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Video games
Anderson CA, Funk JB and Griffiths MD. (eds). 'Video Games and Public Health'. Journal of Adolescence, February 2004; 27(1): 1-122. Brady S. and Matthews K. 'Effects of Media Violence on Health-Related Outcomes Among Young Men'. Archives of ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
When teens have a chronic health problem
Adolescence can be a challenging time for young people and their families. Your teenager is going through rapid physical and emotional changes and parents and teenagers must both make changes in their relationships to adjust to this new ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Living online
Anderson CA, Funk JB, and Griffiths MD. (eds). 'Video Games and Public Health'. Journal of Adolescence, February 2004; 27(1): 1-122. Brady S. and Matthews K. 'Effects of Media Violence on Health-Related Outcomes Among Young Men'. Archives of ... [... more]
Child & Youth Health |
Growing pains
Growing pains usually start to affect children when they are three to five years old. They may continue to affect them into early adolescence. Why there is pain is not known. Growing pains are harmless and will go away without special ... [... more]
Better Health |
Food and your life stages
Our nutritional requirements change as we move through different life stages. Adolescence, pregnancy, lactation, menopause and ageing all place extra demands on the body. These demands need to be met by our daily diet to maintain the best of ... [... more]
Better Health |
Back pain - children
Back pain is common in Australian children, particularly during adolescence. Some causes of back pain in young people include poor posture, inappropriate forms of exercise and carrying heavy schoolbags. If pain is persistent, and felt in the same ... [... more]
Better Health |
Trauma and teenagers - common reactions
Your child will handle the experience of distressing or frightening events differently during adolescence. In order to help them, parents need to understand the ways in which a teenager manages distress and trauma. Teenagers who experience a ... [... more]
Better Health |
Avi - Authors - Random House
In the overlapping years when childhood and adolescence blend and shift like waves and sand, nothing is certain and everything is changing. In this extraordinary collection of stories, Avi, one of the most innovative authors writing... What Do ... [... more]
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