1st Edition

Adolescent Sexuality New Challenges for Social Work

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

192 Pages
by Routledge

Here is an invaluable resource to help professionals understand the broad range of issues and challenges that adolescents face as they grapple with their sexuality. This highly informative volume addresses the most compelling issues of adolescent sexuality. Sexual orientation, acquaintance rape, new social roles, and sexually transmitted diseases are among the numerous topics that social workers... Read more
Contents Foreword
  • I. Challenges
  • Some Major Issues Regarding Adolescent Sexuality and Childbearing in the United States
  • Contemporary Sex Roles for Adolescents: New Options or Confusion?
  • Acquaintance Rape Among Adolescents: Identifying Risk Groups and Intervention Strategies
  • Preventing HIV Infection Among Black and Hispanic Adolescents
  • Social Service Needs of Lesbian and Gay Adolescents: Telling It Their Way
  • II. Adolescent Sexuality in Rural and Urban America
  • Improving Family Planning Services to Rural Adolescents
  • Adolescent Fathers in Urban Communities: Exploring Their Needs and Role in Preventing Pregnancy
  • Adolescent Sexuality and Premature Parenthood: Role of the Black Church in Prevention
  • Networking With Rural Adolescents and Their Parents to Promote Communication About Sexual Issues
  • AIDS Education Is Sex Education: Rural and Urban Challenges
  • Index

Biography

Constance H Shapiro, Paula Allen-Meares