CONTRACEPTIVE RISK-TAKING BEHAVIOR BY SEXUALLY ACTIVE ADOLESCENT FEMALES

Risky business: exploring adolescent risk-taking behavior.

Contraceptive Provision to Adolescent Females Prescribed Teratogenic Medications.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Rates of adult women receiving contraceptive provision when simultaneously prescribed a known teratogen are alarmingly low. The prevalence of this behavior among pediatric providers and their adolescent patients is unknown. The objective of this study was to describe pediatric provider behaviors for prescribing teratogens concurrently with counseling, referral, and/or ...

Care of a sexually active adolescent.

Volume 86, Number 5 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 457 Case Scenario It was great that my 15-year-old female patient, who seemed emotionally disengaged during the routine confidential time at her annual visit, felt comfortable enough to return for advice. On the other hand, it was disconcerting to see her in distress and accompanied by a male classmate instead of her family. After e...

risk taking in english to persian translation process by novice iranian translators

این پژوهش به بررسی ریسک پذیری مترجمان تازه کار در طی فرآیند ترجمه از زبان انگلیسی به فارسی می پردازد. پژوهش درباره مترجمان به عنوان اولین خواننده متن مبدا از اهمیت به سزایی برخوردار است. مترجمان تازه کار (و حرفه ای) در طی فرآیند ترجمه با مشکلات متعددی روبرو می شوند که باعث عدم اطمینان آنها از متن ترجمه شده می شود. با توجه به اینکه عدم اطمینان به انجام ریسک منتهی می شود، هدف این پژوهش بررسی کیفی...

Peers and Adolescent Risk Taking

Adolescent risk taking occursmost oftenwhen teens are in the presence of their peers. An extensive body of prior work has attempted to explain this phenomenon with respect to peer pressure, social conformity, and affiliation with deviant peers. Recent experimental work, however, suggests that peer influences on adolescent decision making may be rooted in an even more basic process by which soci...