Positive Adolescent Training Through Holistic Social Programs

Clinical holistic medicine: holistic adolescent medicine.

The holistic medical approach seems to be efficient and can also be used in adolescent medicine. Supporting the teenager to grow and develop is extremely important in order to prevent many of the problems they can carry into adulthood. The simple consciousness-based, holistic medicine--giving love, winning trust, giving holding, and getting permission to help the patient feel, understand, and l...

Training programs and implementation process of positive youth development programs.

Holistic adolescent medicine

The leading causes of mortality in adolescents continue to be accidents, homicide, suicide, sexually transmitted infections, teen pregnancy, eating disorders and drug abuse related mortality. All these causes are preventable and primarily due to risk taking behaviors related to the developmental stage of adolescents. The same risk taking behaviors are also leading causes of morbidity. In many i...

Scapular-muscle performance: two training programs in adolescent swimmers.

CONTEXT Swimming requires well-balanced scapular-muscle performance. An additional strength-training program for the shoulders is pursued by swimmers, but whether these muscle-training programs need to be generic or specific for endurance or strength is unknown. OBJECTIVE To evaluate isokinetic scapular-muscle performance in a population of adolescent swimmers and to compare the results of tr...

Evaluating Training Programs

This article has no abstract.