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- Abstinence is the surest way to avoid the risk of STDs and unwed childbearing. Abstinence education “teaches abstinence from sexual activity outside marriage as the expected standard for all school age children” and stresses the social, psychological, and health benefits of absti-nence.
files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/ED509485.pdfEvidence on the Effectiveness of Abstinence Education: An Update
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Dec 16, 2000 · Any total abstinence programme will be at a disadvantage when compared with “safer sex” education because abstinence, unlike condom use, runs against the tide of peer pressure.
- Trevor Stammers, Roger Ingham
- 2000
Jun 30, 2017 · Nine interventions either focused exclusively on abstinence (abstinence-only) or emphasized abstinence (abstinence-plus), whereas the remaining 55 interventions provided comprehensive sex...
- Taking A Whole of School Approach
- What Makes A Good School Drug Education Program?
- School Alcohol and Other Drug Policies
- Vaping
A ‘whole of school’ approach recognises that student health and wellbeing can be influenced by many complex and overlapping factors. For example, having good relationships with peers, teachers, coaches, school counsellors and nurses can impact a young person’s development.3, 5 Students who feel connected at school and have positive role models may ...
Programs that have good evidence behind them typically: 1. use interactive approaches to engage students 2. deliver the program over multiple sessions that are well-structured and regular (usually around once a week) 3. provide booster sessions over multiple years 4. are delivered by teachers or other trained staff 5. give students the opportunity ...
School policies should discourage drug use while also taking a non-punitive approach to any incidents of students or staff using AOD at school.7, 8 A good policy will usually have a number of these key elements: 1. doesn’t disrupt normal school functioning 2. involves all types of school community members (students, teachers, staff and parents) in ...
Vaping has become a concern for many schools. Educators may be interested in providing vaping information or education to their students, staff and parents. Because the issue is relatively new, there’s a lack of school education programs that have been properly evaluated and show evidence of effectiveness.9 But some current evidence-based drug educ...
Feb 29, 2024 · Our analyses revealed that mental health difficulties in primary school left children more vulnerable to exclusion and truancy later when entering secondary school.
Abstaining from all sexual activity is the only 100 percent safe and effective way to avoid teen pregnancies, STIs, and the emotional fallout of adolescent sexual activity. Almost 40 years of emphasis on “safer sex” with “values-neutral sex education,” condoms and contraception has clearly failed our young people.
Dec 12, 2022 · However, the most prevalent drug education for teens has been abstinence based, attaching stigma and moral judgment to substance use and users, instead of learning the effects and how to make informed, healthy decisions about use [14, 15]. School based harm reduction programs have rarely received the attention of researchers.
