Adolescent Medicine

Adolescent Medicine The Official page for Military Adolescent Medicine! The military trains physicians to provide world-class healthcare to the adolescent population.

Military Adolescent Medicine leads the way in promoting optimal health and well-being for adolescents and young adults. The main reason for this is to support the service members (whose average age is 20 years old), and also to maintain the health of family members many of whom are teens. Adolescents have unique health needs that are different from children or adults. Adolescence is a transition p

eriod of time between childhood and adulthood full of rapid physical growth, psychological, cognitive, and emotional changes and development. During these years, teens strive to become independent, develop a healthy body image, shape their identity, and form healthy relationships. Many high risk behaviors and health problems that arise during this transition period are the result of vulnerabilities, obstacles, circumstances, and influences that occur along the way. The good news is that most of the health problems and risk behaviors that affect teens are preventable! Our job is to educate, identify, prevent, and treat problems to help teens become healthy and successful into adulthood and beyond. We support the needs of active duty members, dependent adolescents and young adults in order to strengthen the military family, community, and the fighting force.

01/15/2017

Recent studies of adolescents reveal what teenagers need most from their parents during four phases of teens’ intellectual, emotional and social development.

12/02/2016

High schoolers who are virgins rate significantly better in nearly all health-related behaviors and measures than their s*xually active peers.

11/05/2016

Su***de rates for U.S. middle school students have been steadily rising — doubling from 2007-14, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Exercise is critical to academic performance.
10/05/2016

Exercise is critical to academic performance.

Physical movement improves mental focus, memory, and cognitive flexibility; new research shows just how critical it is to academic performance.

07/04/2016

Adolescence is a developmental period of immense social, physical, and emotional change. In the midst of it all, both boys and girls face double standards for how peers react to s*xual experiences, new Penn State research shows.

07/04/2016

If you want your teen to clean her room, you're better off offering a reward than threatening punishment, a new study suggests.

07/04/2016

Some girls are showing signs of maturing much earlier than we're used to, but why?

03/04/2016

Some apps just enable bad choices.

03/04/2016

We are thrilled to host another one of our !

Join us on Twitter, Monday, March 7th from noon to 1pm EST as we moderate a discussion on, "Addressing Trauma and Violence Among Youth."

We have special guest co-hosts and content experts, SafeLab and Michigan Youth Violence Prevention Center to help facilitate the conversation.

We are so excited, we hope to tweet you then!

Find topics like this and other adolescent health related topics at our 2016 Conference on Adolescent Health- click the "Learn More" button on our page for more details.

03/04/2016

Today, my daughter pulled out a journal made for military kids developed by an organization that serves them. It was labeled, "My Life: A Kids' Journal."...

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