Jeffrey Blustein / Carol Levine / Nancy Dubler (eds.)

The Adolescent Alone

Herausgeber: Blustein, Jeffrey; Levine, Carol; Dubler, Nancy

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A growing number of adolescents do not have a supportive and trusting relationship with an adult in a birth, foster, adoptive, or chosen family. Through a variety of circumstances, they are literally or functionally 'alone'. Yet like all adolescents they need routine and sometimes specialized health care. This book is a collection of essays, case studies, and guidelines that describe the demography, philosophical, medical, legal, and developmental framework in which these youth and health care staff confront medical decision making. The authors address questions of consent, confidentiality, access to care, and the right to refuse or demand care. Throughout the emphasis is on the real-world experience of adolescents as they struggle to overcome the challenges of being alone. Professionals who work with these adolescents cannot replace their absent or disinterested families but can fulfill the critical role of trusted adult advisor.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 625g
• ISBN-13: 9780521652407
• ISBN-10: 0521652405
• Artikelnr.: 21746671

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: the adolescent alone: 'you got nobody in your corner' Carol
Levine, Jeffrey Blustein and Nancy Dubler; Part I. The Adolescent Alone:
Who and How? Audrey Smith Rogers and Susan Newcomer; 2. Adolescent
development: implications for adolescents alone Nancy Leffert and Anne
Petersen; 3. The health of American adolescents: current issues and service
gaps Neal Hoffman; 4. Health care for the adolescent alone: a legal
landscape Abigail English; 5. Valid consent to treatment and the
unsupervised adolescent Jeffrey Blustein and Jonathan Moreno; 6. The impact
of growing up orphaned on decision-making capacity Francine Cournos; 7. The
experience of coming out among gay and lesbian youth: adolescents alone?
Andrew Boxer, Judith Cook and Gilbert Herdt; 8. Lives in the balance: a
profile of homeless youth in New York city Michael Clatts, Deborah Hillman,
Aylin Atillasoy and W. Rees Davis; 9. Adolescents and medical decision
making: observations of a medical anthropologist Betty Levin; Part II.
Introduction: Case 1. Consent and the Limits of Staff as 'Family' Abigail
English; Case 2. Placing an Unplaceable Teen Cathy Cramer, Linda Freeman
and Audrey Rogers; Case 3. An Adolescent's Contested Wish for a Kidney
Transplant Jeffrey Blustein and Susan Coupey; Case 4. Saying 'No' to
Treatment in Terminal Illness Jonathan Moreno and Ken Schonberg; Case 5.
Consent and an Informal Guardian Peter Millock and Donna Futterman; Case 6.
Does 'Nonjudgmental' Care Include Prescribing Hormones? Andrew Boxer and
Michael Clatts; Case 7. An Adolescent's Decisions about Reproduction and
HIV Transmission Francine Cournos and Nancy Dubler; Case 8. Family and
Culture in HIV Care for a Latino Adolescent Luis H. Zayas; Case 9. Consent
by Antisocial Adolescents: Defining the 'Least Bad' Option Michael Pawel;
Part III. Ethics Guidelines for Health Care Providers on Treating
'Adolescents Alone' Jeffrey Blustein, Nancy Dubler and Carol Levine.