Evaluation of a Curriculum to Improve Clinician Communication With Adolescents.

Introduction: While guidelines for health care clinicians working with adolescent patients encourage open communication and confidential visits, current practices often fall short and many adolescents do not receive confidential care or adequate communication about sexually transmitted infections, reproductive health, and other sensitive health topics.

Methods: The Providers and Teens Communicating for Health (PATCH) program in Wisconsin aims to bridge communication gaps between adolescents and health care clinicians. Teen educators are hired and trained to lead 2 types of workshops-one targeting peers and one targeting clinicians.

Division of Labor in Families of Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.

Couples who have a child or adolescent with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are faced with the difficult decision of how to divide childcare responsibilities and paid employment. We examined the division of labor and its relation to parenting stress and marital adjustment in 73 married couples who have a child or adolescent with ASD. Mothers and fathers independently reported on their global level of parenting stress and marital adjustment and then completed a 7-day online daily diary of time spent in childcare, time spent in paid employment, and satisfaction with the time that one's spouse spent in childcare.