CONTEXT: Adolescent pregnancy, HIV, and other sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are
major public health problems in the US Implementing group-based interventions that …

This paper reviews 83 studies that measure the impact of curriculum-based sex and HIV
education programs on sexual behavior and mediating factors among youth under 25 years …

This chapter discusses sensation seeking and risk behavior. Topics discussed include the
following:(1) definitions of risk,(2) risk appraisal,(3) risky behavior, and (4) interaction of …

Over the past half-century, a number of conceptualizations (eg, the Health Belief Model,
Hochbaum, 1958, Rosenstock, 1990; the Transtheoretical Model, Prochaska and Velicer …

This study assessed the effects of 3 theoretically grounded, school-based HIV prevention
interventions on inner-city minority high school students' levels of HIV prevention …

This meta-analysis tested the major theoretical assumptions about behavior change by
examining the outcomes and mediating mechanisms of different preventive strategies in a …

In an effort to reduce unintended pregnancy and sexually transmitted disease (STD) in
adolescents, both abstinence and comprehensive sex and STD/HIV education programs …

Adolescents are at high risk for a number of negative health consequences associated with
early and unsafe sexual activity, including infection with human immunodeficiency virus …

Abstract In 1997, I wrote No Easy Answers: Research Findings on Programs to Reduce
Teen Pregnancy for the National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy. At that time, with …

This book is about community psychology. Community psychology is based on a way of
thinking. Our intention in this book is to develop that way of thinking and to show how the …