ERIC Number: ED295106
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1987-Oct
Pages: 13
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Teenage Pregnancy: Issues and Strategies for School Counselors.
Rolle, George E.; And Others
Many school administrators view teenage pregnancy as a top problems facing their school systems. Programs designed to reduce the teenage pregnancy rate must address multiple factors connected with teenage pregnancy. School-based clinic programs provide comprehensive primary health care for low income youth, require parental consent, provide mental health and psychosocial counseling, distribute birth control information and methods, operate in cooperation with public health agencies or hospitals, and are staffed by nurses and social workers backed by physicians. Developmental programs are focused on high risk for pregnancy teenagers; are usually school-based; and work to enhance academic skills, build self-esteem, and facilitate educational and occupational goal setting. Instructional type sex education programs have been shown to increase knowledge but neither increase nor decrease the teenage pregnancy rate, while some comprehensive school-based clinics and developmental programs have been effective in reducing the teenage pregnancy rate. School counselors can support the implementation of such comprehensive programs and can implement additional single purpose programs to build self-esteem, improve academic skills, help students set goals, and present alternate life styles. If these things cannot be done, school counselors can inform others of the scope of the teenage pregnancy problem and of the need to more effectively serve those adolescents who are at high risk for becoming pregnant. (NB)
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Language: English
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