Understanding Adolescents With Special Healthcare Needs

This video is an introduction and overview to the concept of adolescent healthcare transition. It emphasizes the need to prepare teens during adolescent development with the goal of ultimately transferring their medical care to adult providers. The video highlights some of the important aspects of working with the adolescent population in terms of adolescent development, confidentiality, communication with teens and difficult psychosocial issues for teens and how this may be complicated by a chronic medical condition.