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Direct linkRuvalcaba, Yanet; Mercer Kollar, Laura M.; Everett Jones, Sherry; Mercado, Melissa C.; Leemis, Ruth W.; Ma, Zhen-Qiang – Journal of School Health, 2023
Background: Sexting is common among adolescents and is associated with numerous health risk behaviors and negative psychosocial constructs. This study examined the relationships between high school students' experiences with sexual violence victimization, dating violence victimization, and engagement in risky sexual behaviors with experiences of…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, Handheld Devices, Sexuality, Adolescents
Raible, Claire A.; Dick, Rebecca; Gilkerson, Fern; Mattern, Cheryl S.; James, Lisa; Miller, Elizabeth – Journal of School Health, 2017
Background: Project Connect is a national program to build partnerships among public health agencies and domestic violence services to improve the health care sector response to partner and sexual violence. Pennsylvania piloted the first school nurse-delivered adolescent relationship abuse intervention in the certified school nurses' office…
Descriptors: School Nurses, Prevention, Intervention, Surveys
Walters, Jessica Bleil; Hughes, Tammy L.; Sutton, Lawrence R.; Marshall, Stephanie N.; Crothers, Laura M.; Lehman, Cathryn; Paserba, Dave; Talkington, Vanessa; Taormina, Rochelle; Huang, Ann – Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 2013
This study examined the self-reported presence and severity of abuse, neglect, and depressive symptoms for 43 adolescents adjudicated delinquent due to a sexual offense. Twenty-seven of the adolescent sexual offenders were also diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder, and 16 did not carry an autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Both groups…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Child Abuse
Sutton, Lawrence R.; Hughes, Tammy L.; Huang, Ann; Lehman, Cathryn; Paserba, David; Talkington, Vanessa; Taormina, Rochelle; Walters, Jessie B.; Fenclau, Eric; Marshall, Stephanie – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2013
Using the criteria established by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the assessment procedures for establishing an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in a previously undiagnosed adjudicated group is detailed. We examined 37 male adolescents adjudicated delinquent for sexual offenses who were sentenced to treatment. Ultimately, 22 (60%) were found to…
Descriptors: Autism, Disability Identification, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Delinquency
Akers, Aletha Y.; Yonas, Michael; Burke, Jessica; Chang, Judy C. – Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 2011
The article discusses a study conducted between December 2007 and March 2008 that involved 19 gender-stratified focus groups with African American parents and adolescents from Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, to explore the process and content of parent-adolescent communication about sex. Discussions about intimate partner violence (IPV) and…
Descriptors: Grounded Theory, Role Models, Sexual Abuse, Mothers
Kim, Min Jung; Tajima, Emiko A.; Herrenkohl, Todd I.; Huang, Bu – Social Work Research, 2009
This article examines whether running away from home mediates the link between child maltreatment and later delinquency and victimization in adolescence. Specifically, the authors tested the hypothesis that childhood physical and psychological abuse increase the risk of a child's running away from home by the time of adolescence. Running away from…
Descriptors: Sexual Abuse, Delinquency, Child Abuse, Victims of Crime
