[Adolescence and alcohol abuse. Relevance of information given by the pediatrician].

Often we don't see alcohol abuse among adolescents, but this kind of drug, easy to find, could be used to trying their limits. Contemporary group has an important role in the habit of drinking. Often family don't think that it's real problem and it's important that paediatrician grasp this dangerous signals.

[Eating disorders in adolescence: anorexia in children].

When doctor visits adolescents have to pay attention to the massage of body like a mirror of difficulty about growth. Adolescents change their eating habits because they need to distinguish to the family. The doctor have to see first signals of more serious behaviour join to eating: anorexia nervosa.

[Advanced adolescence].

The advanced adolescence is the one after the eighteenth birthday. The adolescent tries to accomplish 3 engagements: 1. social and economic stability, 2.

[They way adolescents live at home].

The kids, observing the relationship of their parents, are learning from them. Today the home is less home for everyone. At home you are eating, you are learning, especially you are watching a lot of TV.

[Adolescence and family life cycle. Role of the pediatrician].

Adolescence observed as one of the step of the life cycle from the point of view of changes in the family. The role of paediatricians in the conversation with the adolescent and his parents is to pay attention to the influence that the whole family system could have on producing symptoms.