INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Volume 12, No. 4, October – December 2000

TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITORIAL

My mother is a teenager

Joav Merrick ..........259

REVIEW ARTICLES

Teenage pregnancy in the UK: Where are we going wrong?

Jane Allen and Julia Hippisley-Cox ..........261

ORIGINAL ARTICLES

A follow-up study of victims of crime, murder and suicide found in English cohorts of former ‘excluded-from-school’ or ‘in care’ adolescents

Colin Pritchard and Alan Butler ...............275

The mortality and morbidity of non-medical (alternative) treatment for minors

Anthony S. Luder and Gabriella Friedman .............295

Ovarian tumors in childhood and adolescence

Nurettin Aka, Isik Gonenc, and Esref Yazicioglu .............307

Allergy assessment of children and adolescents. Perspectives from the Russian Perm region

Irina Koryukina, Marina Repetskaya, Evgenii Furman, Gulsum Zhuykova, and Dmitryi Sidorov .............315

CASE REPORTS

Psychiatric presentation of thyroid disease in adolescence

Orna Dali-Gottfried and Anthony S. Luder ...............323

Idiopathic hypoparathyroidism in a 13 year old girl presenting with convulsion

Sibel Aka, Nurettin Aka, Gokhan Kalayci, Nihal Karatoprak, and Ahmet Ozguner .................331

TRENDS AND MILESTONES IN ADOLESCENCE

Trends in child and adolescent out-of-home placement In Israel

Joav Merrick .............337

BOOK REVIEWS ............341

APPRECIATION TO THE UNKNOWN REVIEWERS ...........345

CALENDAR OF EVENTS ................346