Treatment of physically abused adolescents.

It is clear that a number of factors are emerging as necessary criteria for helping physically abused adolescents: The need to establish specific residential treatment units for treating physically abused adolescents. The importance of educational programming to develop community awareness of the seriousness of this issue. The growing need for an awareness is conventional treatment environments to recognize the physically abused adolescent. The need to develop a sensitive and therapeutic approach for such children.