Sentences with phrase «of adolescent sexual»

Parental supervision has been associated with other aspects of adolescent sexual behavior in similar populations, 3,6 and our results showed a protective effect against GC and CT infections as well.

These results are consistent with emerging research that suggests that the psychological correlates of adolescent sexual activity may be moderated by the social context in which this activity occurs.

This study, espousing an ecological — transactional theoretical approach, investigates the role of supportive relationships with parents and friends as potential protective factors against the development of adolescent sexual risk behavior.

Extensive training and experience with an understanding of adolescent sexual abuse treatment

Summary: (To include comparison groups, outcomes, measures, notable limitations) This study compared the efficacy of Multisystemic Therapy (MST) and individual therapy (IT) in the outpatient treatment of adolescent sexual offenders.

Understanding the complexity of adolescent sexual relationships is critical for the advancement of effective sex education programming.

It is a time of adolescent sexual experimentation, the successful resolution of which is settling down in a loving one - to - one relationship with another person in our 20's.

Self - efficacy, self - determination, and victim blaming as predictors of adolescent sexual victimization

The invisibility of adolescent sexual development in foster care: Seriously addressing sexually transmitted infections and access to services.

A notable lack is in the area of large - scale mixed - method qualitative and process studies of adolescent sexual behavior and consequences, particularly studies that include in - depth, valid measures of social and institutional context that can be linked to quantitative outcomes.

Virginia Commonwealth University, School of Social Work, Springfield, VA: Guest Lecturer — Current Trends in the Assessment and Treatment of Adolescent Sexual Offenders

This article provides some of this support by empirically testing a recently proposed theory of adolescent sexual aggression.

Becker and Kaplan (7) have proposed a theory of adolescent sexual aggression that might be better described as a framework for proposed risk factors rather than a theory.

(7) J.V. Becker and M. S. Kaplan, «The Assessment of Adolescent Sexual Offenders,» Advances in Behavioral Assessment of Children and Families, 4 (1988): 97 - 118.

Further, models such as the one proposed by Becker and Kaplan are useful, but there is a real need for theories of adolescent sexual aggression to guide research on, and identification and treatment of, this serious social problem.

The new fact sheet incorporates data from three recent studies of adolescent sexual and reproductive health needs and services in developing countries.

Findings from adolescent health research have demonstrated that parent involvement and connectedness are important factors in the timing and riskiness of adolescent sexual behavior.

Further, the draft document mandated states to override parental prerogatives (known, in UN-speak, as «social barriers to sexual and reproductive health information and care») in the matter of adolescent sexual education.

Not exact matches

«Some of the most important applications have been to the training of retarded children, to the elimination of sexual disorders, to the large - scale amelioration of adult psychotic behavior, to the training of autistic children, to the re-education of delinquent adolescents... to marriage counseling, to weight control and to

Indeed, the academic evidence is clear that involving parents in all aspects of the decision - making process (including whether a minor receives an abortion) actually promotes adolescent sexual health.

Such obsessions invite far more heat than light, and focus our already sexually excited adolescents on discerning extraneous dimensions of their own sexual makeup.

Perhaps the most troubling byproduct of this increasing sexual freedom is the steep rise in the numbers of unmarried adolescent mothers.

What the bishops do in their June meeting will not be very credible if they do not forthrightly address the question of homosexuality and its obvious connection with the sexual abuse of adolescent and older teenage boys.

In contrast to the vibrant youth and sexual attractiveness of blossoming adolescent children, they may feel like «has beens.»

It reads this way: «If your son or daughter is an adolescent, it is possible that he or she may be experimenting with some homosexual behaviors as part of the process of coming to terms with sexual identity.

Most adolescent males will wholeheartedly affirm a connection between the availability of contraception and sexual activity, and scientific data supports that link.

Having worked with late adolescents most of my career, I am inclined to think that sexual confusion is as much a fact of life as sexual determination.

The report calls on the Member States to provide «adolescent - friendly sexual and reproductive health services which are in accordance with age, maturity and evolving capacities, which do not discriminate on the grounds of gender, marital status, disability, or sexual orientation / identity, and which are accessible without the consent of parents or guardians.»

Congress identified the following purposes: the promotion of «self - discipline and other prudent approaches to the problem of adolescent premarital sexual relations,» the promotion of adoption as an alternative for adolescent parents, the development of new approaches to the delivery of care to pregnant teenage girls, and the support of research and demonstration projects «concerning the societal causes and consequences of adolescent premarital sexual relations, contraceptive use, pregnancy, and child rearing.»

One might then as well set up the thesis that the interest in mechanics, physics, chemistry, logic, philosophy, and sociology, which springs up during adolescent years along with that in poetry and religion, is also a perversion of the sexual instinct: - but that would be too absurd.

From the statistics, and after analysis from the American Linacre Centre, Lawler reports that: «Faced with that statistic, some analysts began to say that what had been seen as a crisis of paedophilia was really a matter of ephebophilia», a term meaning the sexual attraction of men towards adolescent boys.

Such obsessions generate far more heat than light, and focus already sexually excited adolescents on discerning extraneous dimensions of their own sexual makeup.

Youthful and adolescent masturbation certainly is not wicked; in older persons it will very likely be harmless, in the absence of other kinds of sexual activity and as a means of relieving physical sexual tension.

had to do not with the number but with the nature of the sexual abuses alleged: The report states that 80 \ % to 90 \ % of priests who sexually abused children over the past 52 years had been involved with adolescent boys - ephebophilia - not prepubescent children - paedophilia.»

Psychoanalysis recognizes that promiscuous sexual behavior springs from a disturbed personality, though exceptions are made in the case of the exploratory adolescent phase of development, which marks the transition between infantile and mature love.

[i] False Allegations of Sexual Abuse by Children and Adolescents; MARK D. EVERSON, PH.D., AND BARBARA W. BOAT, PH.D..

Deficiency of Zinc results in growth failure and sexual infantilism in adolescents.

Sandusky's sexual assaults of adolescent males eventually led to an effective life sentence for Sandusky, along with unusual NCAA sanctions (later revoked) against the school and three former PSU admins being sentenced for child endangerment.

The disparity between widespread adolescent sexual activity and the blinders worn by most parents and adults has created a generation gap of unprecedented proportions.

Adults see intimate sexual relationships as normal and natural for older adolescents, a positive component of emotionally healthy maturation.

A variety of studies suggest that fathers» engagement positively impacts their children's social competence, 27 children's later IQ28 and other learning outcomes.29 The effects of fathers on children can include later - life educational, social and family outcomes.1, 2,26 Children may develop working models of appropriate paternal behaviour based on early childhood cues such as father presence, 30,31 in turn shaping their own later partnering and parenting dynamics, such as more risky adolescent sexual behaviour32 and earlier marriage.33 Paternal engagement decreases boys» negative social behaviour (e.g., delinquency) and girls» psychological problems in early adulthood.34 Fathers» financial support, apart from engagement, can also influence children's cognitive development.35

Ghana's First Lady and President of the Organisation of Africa First Ladies Against HIV and AIDS OAFLA Lordina Mahama, has stated that the UN's ambitious Sustainable Development Goals SDGs can largely be achieved by nations if they pay attention to Adolescents sexual health issues.

She called for the creation of a safe and supportive environment for adolescents to access appropriate information on sexual and reproductive health.

In the award category of «Reducing STD Infections», it was noted that Dr. Burstein has conducted health services research to identify barriers and successful strategies to improve the delivery of confidential sexual health services for adolescents.

She has collaborated with New York State and national policy experts to address the challenge of confidential adolescent sexual health services as a health policy issue.

In a nationwide survey in 2015, 40 percent of adolescents who identified as one of these sexual minorities or said they were unsure of their orientation reported seriously considering suicide.

The two types of reasoning are part of Fuzzy Trace Theory, which «has emerged as one of the major alternative paradigms to successfully explain adolescents» and adults» risk taking in domains such as health and sexual behaviors,» according to the authors.

While levels of condom use with casual partners and the proportion of people reporting multiple sexual partners remained largely unchanged, the proportion of adolescents ages 15 to 19 who reported never having sex rose from 30 percent in 1999 to 55 percent in 2016.

«This is a preliminary study, but it shows that the HEART intervention can make a difference in the sexual health of adolescent girls,» Widman says.

The percentage of adolescents reporting to have sexual experience in this study was relatively low — up to 5.8 percent of tenth graders and 11.4 percent of twelfth graders.