Hebiatric psychosomatic medicine

Adolescent disease should not be considered as something similar to infantile pathology or adult sicknesses. Special consideration must be given to the adolescent as such, taking into account the characteristics of adolescents as described in the 'Normal Adolescence Syndrome'. Symptom formation follows the same pattern as described elsewhere for children, adolescents and adults, but with very special differences in this stage of human development. Hysterical, hypochondriacal and psychotic types of psychosomatic illnesses can be described with the qualification of 'adolescent type'. Hebiatric medicine must be the specialized approach to illnesses in this developmental stage and must define its study object: the adolescent. Interviewing, clinical examination, diagnosis treatment and prognosis are of a specialized kind and the psychosomatic approach is also different. There are some more typical hebiatric pathologies that must be considered properly.