Challenges of Providing Confidential Care to Adolescents in Urban Primary Care
Source: National Institutes of Health
Date Published: 2011
Description
This article describes a study that sought to describe primary care clinicians’ patterns of delivering time alone, decision making about introducing time alone to adolescents and their parents, and experiences delivering confidential services. Findings and recommendations conclude that experienced clinicians can gain skills in the art of managing complex relationships between adolescents and their parents, ant that office systems should be developed that enhance the consistency of delivery of confidential services.
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