Adolescents need to understand the consequences of risky sexual behavior, including unplanned pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and sexually transmitted infections. Yet these topics can be difficult to discuss and teach effectively. In a concise and convenient format, Adolescent Sexual Health Education: An Activity Sourcebook offers easy and creative exercises that educators and instructors can use to help adolescents understand and reduce their risky behaviors.
Within the pages of this invaluable resource, you will find more than sixty ready-to-use activities designed to educate teens about pregnancy, HIV/AIDS, and STI prevention. Each exercise is drawn from prevention programs that have been scientifically proven to change adolescent health behaviors, and will teach teens how to discuss sexual issues in an honest manner, postpone sexual activity, negotiate condom use, gain a better understanding of gay, lesbian and bisexual issues, and more.
- Group discussions
- Role plays
- Homework assignments
- Group activities
- Instructor-led discussions
- Additional exercises, including field trips, guest speakers, and more
The book offers many types of exercises, including:
Adolescent Sexual Health Education: An Activity Sourcebook offers a wide range of activities which can easily supplement an existing program or provide the foundation for an entirely new one. Most activities can be led by classroom teachers, facilitators, or health educators with no prior experience, and are suitable for a wide variety of settings, including community-based organizations, health clinics, or classrooms.
Table of Content
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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Activities
A Lunchtime Chat
A Trip to the Drug Store
An Important Discussion
Assertive Communication-Using a Condom
At a Party
Condom Demonstration
Discussing Safer Sex with Partners
Discussing Sexual History with a Partner
Finding Out How Safe My Friend or Partner Is
I Don’t Want to be Gay or Lesbian
Jack & Lefty Coming Out
Jackie & Al and Allison & Gary
Risks and Healthy Lifestyles: How to Reduce Risk of Infection
Talking to a Grownup
What’s Your Advice?
Dating Decisions
Eliminating Barriers: Identify, Prioritize, Create Solutions
HIV and AIDS
Icebreaker (Initial Communication)
Identifying Values
Sex and Sexuality
Spreading the Word about HIV
Thoughts, Feelings, Beliefs, and Fears about Using Condoms
Tug of War
What Should Be Taught in Sex Education?
AIDS Awareness Form
Guide ”Lines”
How HIV Would Change My Life
Making Safer Sex Game Plan
My Autobiography: Five Years Ahead
Parents’ Ideas and Expectations about Dating
Ready or Not?
Student Reporter: Interviewing Parents about AIDS
Why Wait?
Cognitive Rehearsal for Action Plan
Guided Fantasy
How Much of a Threat is HIV?
How to Make a TV Commercial, Rap, or Newscast
Introductions Using a Ball of Yarn
Positive Qualities of Gay and Lesbian People
What We Want to Know: Developing an Interview
Where Do You Stand?
Brainstorm: How to Support Others in Sticking to Limits
Brainstorm: Ways to Avoid Pregnancy
Developing Classroom Rules
Reasons Many Teens Don’t Have Sex
Resisting Peer Pressure
Starting Relationships
Would You Apply for This Job?
Anonymous Question Box
Feeling Thermometer
Personal Consultation Session
Personal Information Form
Visit with a Person Living with HIV/AIDS
Appendix
Primary Pregnancy Prevention
Secondary Pregnancy Prevention
STI/HIV/AIDS Prevention
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About the author
Tabitha Benner, MPA, is a Research Associate at Sociometrics Corporation.
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