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Simpson, Hazel E. – LEARNing Landscapes, 2017
This paper reports on the results of an exploratory evaluation of a sexuality education program that was introduced in technical and vocational institutions in Guyana. The rationale for the program is outlined, along with the methodology employed in the evaluation of the program, including the analysis of data from document reviews, telephone and…
Descriptors: Sex Education, Vocational Education, Foreign Countries, Postsecondary Education
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Dembo, Richard; Briones-Robinson, Rhissa; Barrett, Kimberly; Winters, Ken C.; Ungaro, Rocío; Karas, Lora; Belenko, Steven; Wareham, Jennifer – Journal of Child & Adolescent Substance Abuse, 2015
Few studies investigating the validity of marijuana use have used samples of truant youths. In the current study, self-reports of marijuana use are compared with urine test results for marijuana to identify marijuana underreporting among adolescents participating in a longitudinal brief intervention for drug-involved truant youths. It was…
Descriptors: Marijuana, Truancy, Adolescents, Intervention
Grubbs, Natalie Kane – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to gain a fuller understanding of the sort of assistance, support, or education parents feel they need from school counselors in parenting adolescents. The research question examined was: What sort of assistance, support, or education do independent school parents feel they need from school counselors in raising…
Descriptors: Parent Education, School Counselors, Counselor Role, Child Rearing
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Beckert, Troy; Strom, Robert; Strom, Paris; Yang, Cheng-Ta; Shen, Yuh-Ling – Adolescence (San Diego): an international quarterly devoted to the physiological, psychological, psychiatric, sociological, and educational aspects of the second decade of human life, 2005
Education for parents was recently mandated in Taiwan and presents a challenge to the schools. The purpose of this study was to determine how two generations perceive parenting strengths and learning needs. Taiwanese mothers of 10- to 14-year-olds (n = 209) and their adolescent children (n = 201) completed the Parent Success Indicator.…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Urban Schools, Foreign Countries, Adolescents