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A Checklist for Putting Positive Youth Development Characteristics into Action in Teen Pregnancy Prevention programs

A Checklist for Putting Positive Youth Development Characteristics into Action in Teen Pregnancy Prevention programs

A checklist for practitioners to assess how/whether their program integrates positive youth development and how to improve it. Includes selected related resources. By OAH

By OAH

Adolescent Intimacy Revisited

Adolescent Intimacy Revisited

Results highlight the importance of considering a developmental timetable for the maturation of relationships and social skills, as well as the need to acknowledge individual variability in patterns of friendship intimacy.

By Shulman, S., Laursen, B., et al. (1997)

Adolescent peer relations, friendships, and romantic relationships: do they predict social anxiety and depression?

Adolescent peer relations, friendships, and romantic relationships: do they predict social anxiety and depression?
By La Greca, A. M., & Harrison, A. M. (2005)

Adolescents' and their friends' health-risk behavior: factors that alter or add to peer influence.

Adolescents' and their friends' health-risk behavior: factors that alter or add to peer influence.
By Prinstein, M. J., Boergers, J., et al. (2001)

Assessing peer relations: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

Assessing peer relations: A guide for out-of-school time program practitioners

Describes factors that promote positive peer relations and provides easy-to-use measures for assessing peer relations.

By Terzian, M. 2012

Co-Rumination mediates contagion of internalizing symptoms within youths' friendships

Co-Rumination Mediates Contagion of Internalizing Symptoms within Youths' Friendships
By Schwartz-Mette, R. A., & Rose, A. J. (2012)

Developmental Neuroscience and Adolescent Sexual Health: Peer Presence

ETR (2017)

Developmental Neuroscience and Adolescent Sexual Health: Social Status and Autonomy

ETR (2017)

Family and Friend Influence on Urban-Dwelling American Indian Adolescent Girls' Sexual Risk Behavior

Family and Friend Influence on Urban-Dwelling American Indian Adolescent Girls' Sexual Risk Behavior
By Saftner, M. A. (2015)

Friends First? The Peer Network Origins of Adolescent Dating

Friends First? The Peer Network Origins of Adolescent Dating

Evidence that romantic relationships create bridges in friendship networks heightens their importance for the diffusion of health-risk behaviors, and should spark future research focused on the social contexts of adolescent romance and behavioral change.

By Kreager, D. A., Molloy, L. E., et al. (2016)

Friends' Influence on Adolescents' First Sexual Intercourse

Friends' Influence on Adolescents' First Sexual Intercourse

Programs focused on delaying teenage sexual intercourse should address norms for sexual behavior among adolescents' close friends.

By Sieving, R. E., Eisenberg, M. E., et al. (2006)

Gay-Straight Alliances, Social Justice Involvement, and School Victimization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Youth: Implications for School Well-Being and Plans to Vote

Gay-Straight Alliances, Social Justice Involvement, and School Victimization of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Queer Youth: Implications for School Well-Being and Plans to Vote
By Toomey, R. B., & Russell, S. T. (2013)

Gender Spectrum

By Gender Spectrum

Healthy Friendships in Adolescence

By OPA

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence

Helping Teens Develop Healthy Social Skills and Relationships: What the Research Shows About Navigating Adolescence

A review of more than 360 research studies detailing intervention strategies found to be effective.

By Hair, E, Jager, J (Child Trends) 2002

Helping Teens Navigate Peer Relationships Take and Teach Lesson

Helping Teens Navigate Peer Relationships Take and Teach Lesson

Lesson plans for helping teens navigate peer relationships.

By University of Minnesota Extension

High School Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and Young Adult Well-Being: An Examination of GSA Presence, Participation, and Perceived Effectiveness

High School Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) and Young Adult Well-Being: An Examination of GSA Presence, Participation, and Perceived Effectiveness
By Toomey, R. B., Ryan, C., et al. (2011)

Improving the paradigm of approaches to adolescent sexual and reproductive health

Improving the paradigm of approaches to adolescent sexual and reproductive health

Suggests an approach grounded in the principles of positive youth development to reduce risk factors and improve the protective factors that contribute to adolescents’ successful and healthy transition into adulthood.

By Plourde, K. F., Fischer, S., et al. (2016)

Longitudinal Associations Between Seuxal Communication with Friends and Sexual Behaviors Through Percieved Sexual Peer Norms

By Nogueira Avelar e Silva, R., Raat, H., Reitz, E., Plat, M., Deković, M., & Van De Bongardt, D. (2019)

Multiple dimensions of peer influence in adolescent romantic and sexual relationships-a descriptive qualitative perspective

Multiple dimensions of peer influence in adolescent romantic and sexual relationships-a descriptive qualitative perspective

Youth described that platonic peers (friends) influenced their relationships and sexual behavior including pressuring friends into relationships, establishing relationships as currency for popularity and social status, and creating relationship norm and expectations.

By Suleiman, A. B., & Deardorff, J. (2015)

OAH Healthy Relationships Website

OAH Healthy Relationships Website

Overview and statistics for stakeholders, researchers, practitioners Includes state by state data and resources in these topics: Dating and Sexual Relationships, Bullying, LGBT, Dating Violence, Healthy Friendships, Talking With Teens.

Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence

Peer Mentoring: Harnessing Positive Influence

Tip sheet for how to use peer mentoring to improve youth health outcomes

By FYSB 2015

Peer Rejection as a Precursor of Romantic Dysfunction in Adolescence: Can Friendships Protect?

By Schacter, H. L., Lessard, L. M., & Juvonen, J. (2019)

Predictors of Early Initiation of Sexual Intercourse Among High-Risk Adolescents

Predictors of Early Initiation of Sexual Intercourse Among High-Risk Adolescents
By French, D. C., & Dishion, T. J. (2003)

Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive

Relationships First: Creating Connections that Help Young People Thrive

Summarizes recent research on developmental relationships; notes they are catalytic for effective education, programs and services for children, youth and families; includes 55 ideas for deepening one-to-one relationships.

By Roehlkepartain E, et al 2017

Sexual Communication Between Early Adolescents and Their Dating Partners, Parents, and Best Friends

Sexual Communication Between Early Adolescents and Their Dating Partners, Parents, and Best Friends
By Widman, L., Choukas-Bradley, S., et al. (2014)

Sexual risk, substance use, mental health, and trauma experiences of gang-involved homeless youth

Sexual risk, substance use, mental health, and trauma experiences of gang-involved homeless youth
By Petering, R. (2016)

Sibling Influence on Mexican-Origin Adolescents' Deviant and Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Sibling Modeling

Sibling Influence on Mexican-Origin Adolescents' Deviant and Sexual Risk Behaviors: The Role of Sibling Modeling
By Whiteman, S. D., Zeiders, K. H., et al. (2014)

Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors

Teen Dating Violence: How Peers Can Affect Risk & Protective Factors

Research summary that concludes programs aimed at preventing teen dating violence or promoting healthy teen relationships more broadly are likely to be most effective if they take into consideration the potential ways in which peers and peer contexts shape teens’ experiences within close relationships.

By Oudekerk B, et al 2014

Teens, Technology and Friendship

By Lenhart, A., Smith, A., Anderson, M., Duggan, M. & Perrin, A. (2015)

The Exchange

The Exchange

Forum to exchange information on order to advance knowledge, collaboration and partnerships to prep teens for the future.

By FYSB

The Influence of Dating Relationships on Friendship Networks, Identity Development and Delinquency

The Influence of Dating Relationships on Friendship Networks, Identity Development and Delinquency
By Seffrin, P. M., Giordano, P. C., et al. (2009)

The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strengh-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth

The Social Environment and Childbearing Expectations: Implications for Strengh-Based Sexual Health Interventions for Latino Youth
By vanDommelen-Gonzalez, E., Deardorff, J., et al. (2016)

The quality of adolescent friendships: long-term effects?

The quality of adolescent friendships: long-term effects?

Adolescents who reported greater levels of intimacy with friends do not, as adults, indicate that they have significantly higher self-esteem, better relations with their parents, or increased marital satisfaction.

By Giordano, P. C., Cernkovich, S. A., et al. (1998)

The quality of peer relationships among children exposed to family violence.

The quality of peer relationships among children exposed to family violence.
By McCloskey, L. A., & Stuewig, J. (2001)

Urban American Indian Adolescent Girls: Framing Sexual Risk Behavior

Urban American Indian Adolescent Girls: Framing Sexual Risk Behavior
By Saftner, M. A., et al. (2015)

Violence Exposure and Teen Dating Violence Among African American Youth

Violence Exposure and Teen Dating Violence Among African American Youth
By Black, B. M., Chido, L. M., et al. (2014)

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