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Adolescents with Chronic Handicaps

Problems of Sexual and Emotional Development

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Developmental-Behavioral Disorders

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The number of chronically handicapping conditions among our children and adolescents continues to increase each year. Ironically, this seems to be the result of improved medical technology, which has decreased the mortality of infants with central nervous system (CNS) trauma in the perinatal and postnatal periods but has increased the morbidity of handicapping conditions among these newborn survivors.

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  1. Department of Mental Health Sciences, Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19102, USA

    William C. Adamson

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  1. Section of Developmental Pediatrics, Hackensack Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

    John E. Williams M.D. (Chief, Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Chief, Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  2. Department of Pediatrics, University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey-New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey, USA

    Marvin I. Gottlieb M.D., Ph.D. (Director, Professor) & John E. Williams M.D. (Chief, Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director, Professor) &  (Chief, Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor)

  3. Institute for Child Development, Hackensack Medical Center, Hackensack, New Jersey, USA

    Marvin I. Gottlieb M.D., Ph.D. (Director, Professor) & John E. Williams M.D. (Chief, Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor) (Director, Professor) &  (Chief, Associate Director, Clinical Assistant Professor)

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Adamson, W.C. (1988). Adolescents with Chronic Handicaps. In: Gottlieb, M.I., Williams, J.E. (eds) Developmental-Behavioral Disorders. Critical Issues in Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0939-0_2

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