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The Adolescent Years

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Adolescence is a complex time, involving extensive biologic, social, and psychologic changes in the individual. In each case, the time span involved in these processes may vary, beginning as early as age ten or 12, and often extending well into adult life.

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  1. Department of Family and Community Medicine Bowman Gray School of Medicine, Wake Forest University, 300 South Hawthorne Road, 27103, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA

    Robert B. Taylor M.D.

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Cannon, T.B. (1978). The Adolescent Years. In: Taylor, R.B. (eds) Family Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3999-2_20

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