Congratulations to the Director of the Centre for Adolescent Health, Professor Susan Sawyer, who has just published Australia’s first textbook on ‘Youth Health and Adolescent Medicine’, edited with colleagues Dr Melissa Kang, Associate Professor Rachel Skinner, Associate Professor Lena Sanci.
“The editors are excited that this field has come of age in Australia to the extent that a textbook is both needed and can be born of the enormous breadth and depth of expertise that resides among our colleagues”, she said.
The book is in 4 parts:
- Adolescents and young people
- Clinical approaches and youth friendly care
- Common and important health issues in adolescence
- Complex, challenging and ill-defined disorders in adolescence.
Three of the 4 editors are based at the Centre (Professor Sawyer) or trained at the Centre for Adolescent Health (Rachel Skinner and Lena Sanci). Many current and past Centre staff and students contributed chapters, including John Toumbourou, Craig Olsson, Ian Williams, Bill Hallam, Sonia Grover, Michele Yeo, Yvonne Bonomo, Mick Creati, Kathy Rowe, Andrew Court and Andrew Kennedy.
While spanning both population health and clinical perspectives, it will be most relevant for practicing clinicians, including doctors, nurses, psychologists, social workers, allied health professionals and students form a wide range of disciplines.
The book can be ordered from IP communications and costs $80.