Main description:

Adolescents have unique nutritional needs when compared to young children and adults. As youth go through physical, cognitive, and behavioral development, nutrition needs are dynamic and changing. If these needs go undetected and remain unaddressed, the results can derail physical and social maturation and include life-long effects on health.
This comprehensive text offers a multidisciplinary perspective on aspects of adolescent nutrition. Using clinical cases, it covers relevant topics related to adolescent health including normal development, chronic health conditions, and complex biopsychosocial dynamics, among others.
The first section of the text contains an overview of adolescent nutrition that is further broken down into more specific topics such as developmental nutrition needs, needs of active youth and athletes and media influences on body image. The next section focuses on health disparities such as culturally appropriate care, health equity, international considerations and food insecurity. The following section specifically addresses eating disorders ranging from anorexia and bulimia to binge eating. Finally, the last section covers additional health considerations such as polycystic ovarian syndrome, teen pregnancy, substance use and gender non-conforming youth.
Written by experts in the field, this book is a helpful resource for primary care medical providers, registered dietitians/nutritionists (RDN), adolescent medicine specialists, as well as advanced practice nurses, physician assistants, psychologists, licensed social workers, and certified athletic trainers.

Contents:

Section 1: General Adolescent Nutrition
Chapter 1 General Adolescent DevelopmentAndrea M. Landis, PhD, RN, FNP-BC
Chapter 2 Confidentiality Alana Otto, MD, and Do-Quyen Pham, MD MPH
Chapter 3 Communication and Adolescents: Establishing Rapport: Building a Relationship of Trust through Accessible Nutrition Education and CounselingAlicia Dixon Docter, MS, RDN, and Elena Ralph, MPH, RDN
Chapter 4 Developmental Nutrition Holly Anderson, MS, RD
Chapter 5 Wellness and Excessive Weight GainCarley MacRae, MPH, RDN Chapter 6 Ensuring Nutritional Adequacy in the Adolescent and Young Adult AthleteHeather Twible, RD, Kendra Baldwin, MPH, RD, CDE, and Cora Breuner, MD, MPH, FAAP
Chapter 7 Media Influences on Body Image & Eating Behaviors in AdolescentsMya Kwon, MPH, RD
Section 2: Caring for Diverse Populations
Chapter 8 Supporting & Promoting Adolescent Nutritional Health EquityJulia Wignall, MA
Chapter 9 Food insecurity among adolescents and emerging adultsMeg Bruening, PhD, MPH, RD, Alexandra Brewis, PhD; Amber Wutich, PhD
Chapter 10 Culturally appropriate care Maya Kumar, MD
Chapter 11 International considerations Preeti M. Galagali, MD

Chapter 12 Health at Every Size (R)Lauren Rice, MPH, RDN, Lauren Collins, MSW
Chapter 13 Juvenile justiceLauren Mozer, MPH, RDN, CD, Jamie Weber, LICSW
Section 3: Disordered Eating
Chapter 14 Anorexia NervosaRobyn Duran, ARNP, Rebecca Levens, MS, RD
Chapter 15 Bulimia NervosaMichaela Voss, MD, MPH, Amber Brust, RD
Chapter 16 Avoidant/Restrictive Food Intake Disorder (ARFID)Lisa Holman, MS, RD, Emily Ruedinger, MD, M.Ed.,
Chapter 17 Binge eating disorder Jessica Barth Nesbitt, RD, CEDRD-S, Elizabeth Wassenaar, MS, MD
Chapter 18 Otherwise Specified and Unspecified Feeding or Eating Disorders Tracy Kenela, MA, LMHC, CRC, CEDS, ACHT
Chapter 19 Co-Occurring Eating Disorders and Type 1 Diabetes Mellitus Erin Phillips, MPH, RD, CDE
Chapter 20 Co-Occurring Eating Disorders and Orthorexia NervosaVirginia Newman, MS, RD, CDE
Section 4: Additional Health Considerations
Chapter 21 Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS) Sarah Golub, MD, MPH, Amy Cantor, MPH, RD, and Katrina Schroeder Smith, RD
Chapter 22 Type 1 Diabetes MellitusPaula Woo, M.Ed., RD, CDE and Kendra Baldwin, MPH, RD, CDE
Chapter 23 Type II Diabetes MellitusGrace Kim, MD, Tran Hang, MS, RDN, CDE, Allison Laroche, MD
Chapter 24 Nutrition in Adolescent PregnancyKatherine E. Debiec, MD and Judy Simon, MS, RDN, CHES, FAND
Chapter 25 Adolescent Substance use Kristen Arquette, M.Ed., LMFT, CDP, Andrew Gehl, MSW, LSWAIC, Erik Schlocker, MSW, LICSW
Chapter 26 Nurturing Healthy Transitions: Nutrition, Exercise, and Body Image for Transgender and Gender Diverse YouthLara Hayden, MSW, LICSW