Psychosocial aspects of rheumatic disease in childhood and adolescence
White, P.H.
Adolescent Medicine 9(1): 171-177 Vii
1998
ISSN/ISBN: 1041-3499 PMID: 10961260 Document Number: 493265
The increasing number of adolescents with disabilities such as systemic lupus erythematosus who survive into adulthood has prompted the medical community to study the psychological and physical functioning of adolescents after many years of chronic illness. The author uses a generic chronic illness model to augment observations from studies about young people with rheumatic disease.