Designing an effective sexuality education curriculum for schools: Lessons gleaned from the South (ern) African literature

L Wood, LA Rolleri - Sex Education, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Sexuality education forms part of the national school curricula of most sub-Saharan African
countries, yet risk-related sexual behaviour among young people continues to fuel the HIV …

Adolescent motivations to engage in pro‐social behaviors and abstain from health‐risk behaviors: A self‐determination theory approach

SA Hardy, DC Dollahite, N Johnson… - Journal of …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
The present study used self‐determination theory to examine adolescents' motivations to
engage in charitable donating and community volunteering and to abstain from sexual …

Adolescent substance use in the context of the family: A qualitative study of young people's views on parent-child attachments, parenting style and parental substance …

A McLaughlin, A Campbell… - Substance use & misuse, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Background: Adolescent substance use can place youth at risk of a range of poor outcomes.
Few studies have attempted to explore in-depth young people's perceptions of how familial …

“It was bad to see my [Child] doing this”: Mothers' experiences of living with adolescents with substance abuse problems

C Groenewald, A Bhana - International Journal of Mental Health and …, 2016 - Springer
This paper explores mothers' experiences of living with an adolescent with substance use
problems; an underresearched topic of inquiry worldwide. Specifically, we were interested in …

Perceptions of driving after marijuana use compared to alcohol use among rural American young adults

KM Greene - Drug and alcohol review, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Introduction and Aims Substance use contributes to motor vehicle crashes, the
leading cause of death among young adults. The current qualitative study examined …

Leisure constraints for adolescents in Cape Town, South Africa: A qualitative study

LA Palen, ME Patrick, SL Gleeson, LL Caldwell… - Leisure …, 2010 - Taylor & Francis
This study identified leisure constraints, constraints negotiation strategies, and their relative
frequencies among 114 high school students from one under-resourced area of South …

Inhalant abuse among street‐involved children and adolescents in India: Case for epistemic recognition and reorientation

A Shaikh, A Sarin - Journal of Research on Adolescence, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Contextualizing the void of research on inhalant abuse among adolescents as epistemic
neglect, in this study, we use mixed‐methods action research to understand inhalant abuse …

Illegal yet developmentally normative: a descriptive analysis of young, urban adolescents' dating and sexual behaviour in Cape Town, South Africa

A Gevers, C Mathews, P Cupp, M Russell… - BMC international health …, 2013 - Springer
Abstract Background In South Africa, it is illegal for adolescents under age 16 years to
engage in any sexual behaviour whether kissing, petting, or penetrative sex, regardless of …

Context and culture: Reasons young adults drink and drive in rural America

KM Greene, ST Murphy, ME Rossheim - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2018 - Elsevier
Montana, a large and rural US state, has a motor vehicle fatality rate almost double the
national average. For young adults, the alcohol-related motor vehicle fatality rate in the state …

Peer risk and protective factors in adolescence: Implications for drug use prevention

V Goliath, B Pretorius - Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 2016 - scielo.org.za
Abstract GOLIATH, Veonna and PRETORIUS, Blanche. Peer risk and protective factors in
adolescence: Implications for drug use prevention. Social work (Stellenbosch …