This Article Full Text (PDF) Alert me when this article is cited Alert me if a correction is posted Services Email this article to a friend Similar articles in this journal Similar articles in PubMed Alert me to new issues of the journal Add to Saved Citations Download to citation manager Request Permissions Request Reprints Add to My Marked Citations Citing Articles Citing Articles via HighWire Citing Articles via Google Scholar Citing Articles via Scopus Google Scholar Articles by Silber, T. J. Search for Related Content PubMed PubMed Citation Articles by Silber, T. J. Pubmed/NCBI databases Medline Plus Health Information Choosing a Doctor or Health Care Service Family Issues Talking With Your Doctor Teen Health Teens' Page Social Bookmarking                         What's this?

Physician-Adolescent Patient Relationship

The Ethical Dimension

Adolescent Medicine Program, CHNMC, Washinton, D.C., Child Health, George Washington University

Adolescents are very different from each other, but they all have a develop mental process in common: they are going through their second period of individuation and they are developing value systems. Doctors get in touch with their adolescent patients on many different levels and with varying degrees of intensity, but they too have something in common: an obligation to their patient. Although the nature of this obligation is open to debate, the fact is that any interpersonal experience contains a moral element virtually by definition: there is an ethical dimension to the physician-adolescent patient relationship. The nature of the doctor's obligation to the adolescent is defined as aiding the patient to achieve growth. The physician can do this through appropriate use of value clarification and often through personal example.

Clinical Pediatrics, Vol. 19, No. 1, 50-51 (1980)
DOI: 10.1177/000992288001900108


CiteULike    Complore    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter    What's this?

This article has been cited by other articles:

				T. J. Silber Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship JAMA, September 16, 1992; 268(11): 1410 - 1411. [Abstract] [PDF]

				T. J. Silber, I. Chatoor, and P. H. White Psychiatric Manifestations of Systemic Lupus Erythematosus in Children and Adolescents: A Review Clinical Pediatrics, June 1, 1984; 23(6): 331 - 335. [Abstract] [PDF]