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Computer-Based Sex Education For High School Students, Ashley Jones May 2012

Computer-Based Sex Education For High School Students, Ashley Jones

Evidence-Based Practice Project Reports

Adolescents are four times more likely than other age groups to contract chlamydia or gonorrhea. In the USA, young people between 15 to 24 years of age acquire almost half of all newly diagnosed sexually transmitted infections (STI) a year. The purpose of this computer-based sex education EBP project was to increase student knowledge regarding transmission, disease process, and treatment for STIs, as well as to reduce high risk sexual behaviors. The evidence-based practice model for change and the Modeling, Role-Modeling nursing theory guided this project. Computer-based sex education is supported in research. Articles critiqued, utilizing Melnyk and Fineout-Overholt (2011) …


The Relationship Between Teens' Communication With Their Parents, Faith And Religious Practices, Parental Involvement And Their Sexual Behaviors And Attitudes, Lee-Anne Oros May 2012

The Relationship Between Teens' Communication With Their Parents, Faith And Religious Practices, Parental Involvement And Their Sexual Behaviors And Attitudes, Lee-Anne Oros

Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs)

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De(Fencing) With Youth: Moving From The Margins To The Center, Ann E. Tobey, Kate Jellinghaus Jan 2012

De(Fencing) With Youth: Moving From The Margins To The Center, Ann E. Tobey, Kate Jellinghaus

Journal of Social Theory in Art Education

Practices that combine the positive power of human relationships with art making can serve to De(fence): “create, innovate, reshape spaces, opportunities, or works that engage people or (and) bring us and them from the margins to the center” (JSTAE, call for papers, volume 32). In this paper, we explore ideas, techniques, and strategies used to implement four collaborative art projects with teenage youth. These projects aim to create a safe and generative context within which collaborative art-making practice can put youth and their ideas at the center of the process. Projects include an exploration of school climate utilizing sculpture in …


Supply Means Supply - What Does 'Supply' Mean? Consumer Responses To A Campaign Targeting Secondary Supply Of Alcohol To Teenagers, Sandra C. Jones, Laura Robinson, Heidi Gilchrist, Lance Barrie Jan 2012

Supply Means Supply - What Does 'Supply' Mean? Consumer Responses To A Campaign Targeting Secondary Supply Of Alcohol To Teenagers, Sandra C. Jones, Laura Robinson, Heidi Gilchrist, Lance Barrie

Faculty of Social Sciences - Papers (Archive)

A significant factor contributing to the problem of underage drinking is the 'secondary supply' of alcohol to minors. Secondary supply by parents for consumption in private settings is legal in most states of Australia including NSW. The NSW Police Force, in partnership with the Central Coast Health Promotion Unit, developed a community-based intervention to address the issue of secondary supply of alcohol to minors ('Supply Means Supply'). This paper reports on a series of focus groups to examine in more depth the drivers of attitudes towards secondary supply to minors, and to assess responses to the Supply Means Supply campaign …


Using Blogs To Promote Literary Response During Professional Development, Jaime Colwell, Amy Hutchison, David Reinking Jan 2012

Using Blogs To Promote Literary Response During Professional Development, Jaime Colwell, Amy Hutchison, David Reinking

Teaching & Learning Faculty Publications

(First paragraph) The blogging has, I don’t want to say forced, but kind of made me read books that I haven’t necessarily read before, and I don’t think I would have. I’ve read lots of children’s books just through student teaching and everything, but it makes me look outside the box and maybe at other genres that I wouldn’t look at necessarily. (Sam, a pre-service teacher, blogging in a children’s literature course)