Self Realization Publications: Addictions:Adolescent Sexuality :New Challenges for Social Work 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 confront daily in helping adolescents define and seek solutions to their sex-related concerns. Adolescent Sexuality highlights the importance of innovative approaches and client empowerment in prevention and treatment programs for youth, particularly in this era of declining federal support. This timely volume reveals the reluctance of adolescents to confide in their families; therefore, experts offer valuable suggestions for social workers to strengthen and use community resources--the church, family planning agencies, schools, and support groups--to supplement the efforts of many families.

Adolescent Sexuality :New Challenges for Social Work

Edited by Paula Allen-Meares, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor, School of Social Work, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Constance Hoenk Shapiro, PhD, MSW
Associate Professor and Director, Social Work Program, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

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 confront daily in helping adolescents define and seek solutions to their sex-related concerns. Adolescent Sexuality highlights the importance of innovative approaches and client empowerment in prevention and treatment programs for youth, particularly in this era of declining federal support. This timely volume reveals the reluctance of adolescents to confide in their families; therefore, experts offer valuable suggestions for social workers to strengthen and use community resources--the church, family planning agencies, schools, and support groups--to supplement the efforts of many families.

About The Book:

Contents:

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

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