If youth workers want to help prevent smoking they need to understand how to prevent a nonsmoking child from becoming a smoker.
Read More »Avoiding Risky Behaviors in Children
Self-injury and Choking: Destructive Behaviors in Children and Teenagers
It is not surprising when adolescents behave in ways that are potentially dangerous and self-destructive, but now younger children are also choosing to harm themselves through cutting, biting, and asphyxiation techniques like the ‘choking game.’
Read More »Do Virginity Pledges Delay Teen Sex?
Do virginity pledges make a difference in whether or when teens have sex?
Read More »Teen Pregnancy and Foster Care
Teen pregnancy is more prevalent in teenage girls that are in foster care vs girls that are not. Why are these teens at such high risk for pregnancy?
Read More »Online Predators: What Do We Know, and What Can We Do?
Are online predators a real threat to children and teenagers? A psychology professor at UCLA studied chat rooms for teens and found explicit sexual exchanges, joking about physical violence and assaults, aggression, and disturbing exchange involving racial prejudice.
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