Psychoeducational Approach to Teen Pregnancy Ornstein and Hunkins (1993) descri

The purpose of the review of literature presented here is to examine some evaluative research on the psychoeducational approach to teen pregnancy. Specifically, the review will examine studies which have attempted to determine the effects of these programs.

Effects of Psychoeducational Approaches To Teen Pregnancy

Carter, Felice, Rosoff and Zabin (1994) provided a comprehensive review of the literature on adolescent pregnancy prevention. According to the authors, in terms of preventing pregnancy, psychoeducational approaches have been found to be much more successful than approaches that focus merely on the biophysical factors or on providing information regarding contraception and abortion services.

Regarding the psychoeducational program, the authors report that the highest success rates in terms of actually preventing adolescent pregnancy have been found for programs that: (1) focus on the

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search hypotheses were supported by the multivariate data analyses, no sample differences were obtained on consequential thinking (the ability to consider the consequences of sexual activity). Despite these promising findings, the study must be considered limited in that it did not measure the impact of the intervention variables on the actual incidence of adolescent sexual behavior and pregnancy. An interesting study of the effects of psychoeducational training on teen pregnancy was conducted by Levy, Perhats, Nash-Johnson and Welter (1992). This study consisted of a three year long evaluation of the Children and Adolescent Pregnancy Project which provided skill-building, assertion training, and decision making training for adolescents with mild mental retardation, a group which the authors state is at increased risk for early pregnancy and dropping out of school. The project was a school-based intervention and served primarily Black and Hispanic teens with mild-to-moderate mental retardation (MMR) and elementary school-age teens in the same program. All of the students in the study had already been pregnant once. Results were said to indicate that teens successfully avoided repeat pregnancy. It was concluded that the p
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