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Psychological problems manifested by somatic symptoms
1Department of Psychiatry and Behavioural Science, University of Auckland School of Medicine, New Zealand.
Adolescent Medicine (Philadelphia, Pa.)
|August 29, 2000
Abstract:
Physicians often encounter patients with somatic symptoms that reflect a wide range of life difficulties and psychological problems. This review covers common somatic symptomatology in adolescents, diagnosis and management of somatoform disorders, somatic presentations of other major psychiatric disorders, and discusses ways of approaching and screening for difficulties in adolescent populations.