[Sexual counseling during medical consultation with adolescents]

Family planning has been included in the activities of the Multidisciplinary Unit for Adolescent Health, from its opening. The patients can meet the counsellor for pure information; more often, they discuss many issues related to their personal and sexual life, to contraception or pregnancy, to fertility or sexually transmitted diseases, including HIV. All discussions take into account the developmental tasks of the adolescent as well as his cultural/ethnic background. The originality of this approach is that it is widely integrated in the activities of the Unit. For instance, specific situations and issues are regularly discussed during weekly multidisciplinary meetings bringing all the members of the staff together.