With a clever tip of the ten - gallon hat to Sergio Leone's highly influential spaghetti westerns, The American strolls across the screen conveying its drama with
an emphasis on the human face as one assassin steps out of the shadows to bathe in some momentary sunshine.
Christian anthropology's
emphasis on human personhood fulfilling itself in interaction with persons, leads it to give priority to preserve and develop small - scale social institutions which enable
face to
face relations to promote personal values and humanize people.
Several interventions have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing the prevalence of behaviors that place adolescents at risk for acquisition of
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV).1 — 6 These programs have in common a small - group and
face - to -
face method of delivery, an
emphasis on skills development referent to decision making, communication, negotiation and condom use, use of a wide variety of instructional formats and approaches to intervention delivery, and grounding in social learning theory.2 — 6 Despite the encouraging results that accompany these studies with reference to adolescent risk reduction, new challenges have emerged.