Adolescent preventive counseling

Last reviewed: 9 Apr 2025
Last updated: 24 Sep 2024

Summary

Details

  • Resources for adolescent preventive services recommendations
  • Sexual maturity rating scale
  • Health guidance for parents
  • Early adolescence (ages 11-14 years; sexual maturity rating 1-4)
  • Early adolescence healthcare visit: males
  • Early adolescence healthcare visit: females
  • Middle adolescence (15-17 years; sexual maturity rating 4-5)
  • Middle adolescence healthcare visit: males
  • Middle adolescence healthcare visit: females
  • Late adolescence (age 18-21 years; sexual maturity rating 5)
  • Late adolescence healthcare visit: males
  • Late adolescence healthcare visit: females
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Contributors

Authors

William P. Adelman, MD, FAAP

Executive Director

Student Health and Counseling

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia, PA

Professor of Pediatrics

Adjunct Faculty

Perelman School of Medicine

University of Pennsylvania

Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

Philadelphia, PA

Disclosures

WPA declares that he has no competing interests.

Peer reviewers

Elisabeth Stafford, MD, FSAM, FAAP

Program Director

Adolescent Medicine Fellowship

San Antonio Uniformed Services Health Education Consortium

Division Chief

Adolescent Medicine

Department of Pediatrics

Brooke Army Medical Center

San Antonio

TX

Disclosures

ES declares that she has no competing interests.

Alain Joffe, MD, MPH, FAAP

Director

Student Health and Wellness Center

Johns Hopkins University

Baltimore

MD

Disclosures

AJ declares that he has no competing interests.

References

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Key articles

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Guide to clinical preventive services, 2014: recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Service Task Force. 2014 [internet publication].Full text

American Medical Association. Guidelines for adolescent preventive services: recommendations monograph. Chicago, IL: AMA; 1997:1-12.Full text

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. Depression and suicide risk in children and adolescents: screening. Oct 2022 [internet publication].Full text

American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Adolescence. Contraception for adolescents. Pediatrics. 2014 Oct;134(4):e1244-56.Full text  Abstract

Reference articles

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