INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF

ADOLESCENT MEDICINE AND HEALTH

Editor-in-Chief

Professor Joav Merrick, MD, DMSc

Medical Director, Ministry of Social Affairs

Website: www.nichd-israel.com

Director, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

Website: www.nichd-israel.com

Box 1260, IL-91012, Jerusalem, Israel

Tel: 972-2-6708192, Fax: 972-2-6703657, Email: jmerrick@internet-zahav.net

Editorial Board

David L Bennett, AO FRACP Clinical Associate Professor Head, Dept of Adolescent Medicine, Children’s Hospital Westmead, Sydney, Australia Diana ML Birch, MD Director Youth Support London, England Robert W Blum, MD, PhD, MPH Professor of Pediatrics, Dir., Div. Pediatrics and Adolescent Health, University Gateway Minneapolis, USA Jaap E Doek, PhD Professor of Law Free University Amsterdam, Holland Tilman Furniss, MD Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry University of Muenster Germany Pesach Gitelman, PhD Director, Trump Institute Beit Issie Shapira Raanana, Israel Sol Gordon, PhD Professor Emeritus, Syracuse University, NY, USA	Daniel Hardoff, MD Director, Div. Adol. Med. Pediatric Department Bnei Zion Medical Center Haifa, Israel Mike Kerr, MD Professor of Learning Disability Psychiatry, University of Wales College of Medicine Cardiff, England Howard B Levy, MD Chairman, Dept. of Pediatrics Grant Hospital, Chicago USA Mohammed Morad, MD Lecturer in family medicine Dept of Family Medicine Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva Israel Hatim A Omar Associate Professor, Dept. of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine, University of Kentucky Medical Center, Lexington, Kentucky, USA Joaquin de Paul, PhD Professor of Psychology University del Pais Vasco San Sebastian, Spain	Per-Anders Rydelius, MD, PhD Professor of Women and Child Health, Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden Daniel TL Shek, PhD, BBS, JP Professor, Dept. of Social Work The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, Hong Kong Tomas Jose Silber, MD, MASS Professor of Pediatrics Dir., Adolescent Medicine Fellowship Program Children’s National Medical Center, Washington DC, USA Shmuel Tyano, MD Professor of Psychiatry Geha Psychiatric Hospital Petaq Tikva, Israel Leni Verhofstadt-Denève, PhD Professor of Psychology Dept of Developmental Psychology University of Ghent Belgium Lonnie Zeltzer, MD Professor of Pediatrics & Anesthesiology Director, UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles, USA
Founding Editor: Emanuel Chigier, MBBCh, MRCP(Ed), DCH Production Editor: Myrna Kohen Graphic artist: Edit Kluger Abstracted and/or indexed by Index Medicus/MEDLINE/PubMed, EMBASE/Excerpta Medica, CAB Abstracts, CAB Health, MedWebPlus, CDAB (Child Development Abstracts and Bibliography), and PsycInfo.