Adolescent definition

Adolescent means a Medicaid patient 17 years or younger.
Adolescent means a person who has completed his fifteen year of age but has not completed his eighteenth year;
Adolescent means a minor thirteen years of age or older.

Examples of Adolescent in a sentence

  • In Adolescent Sleep Patterns: Biological, Social, and Psychological Influences, M.A. Carskadon (Ed.), Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2002, pp.

  • Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.

  • The California Child and Adolescent Needs and Strengths (CANS) and the Pediatric Symptom Checklist (PSC-35) youth.

  • Evidence-Based Age-Appropriate Interventions: A guide for Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS).

  • The Millon Adolescent Clinical Inventory (MACI) is a 160-item “True/False” questionnaire.


More Definitions of Adolescent

Adolescent. An individual who is at least 13 years of age, but younger than 19 years of age.
Adolescent means an individual from 12 through 17 years of age or those individuals determined to be developmentally appropriate for youth services.
Adolescent means a person who has completed fourteenth year of his age but has not completed eighteenth year of his age;
Adolescent means an individual who is less than 18 years of age, but more than 11 years of age.
Adolescent means any young person of at least 15 years of age but less than 18 years of age who is no longer subject to compulsory full-time schooling under national law;
Adolescent means a person under 18 years of age or a person 18 years of age or older who is attending an accredited high school or pursuing a course of study that will lead to a high school diploma or its equivalent.
Adolescent means an individual nineteen years of age and under.