Introduction: High-risk behaviors following social problems have grown in all societies and in different age and sexual groups. These behaviors are intentional and the person has little control over their possible side effects, such as smoking, alcohol, drugs, psychotropic drugs, and performing early sexual behaviors. The aim of this study was to analysis family-based care and prevention strate...

Single-parent families maybe exposed of personal, interpersonal and family problems. Thus, the aim of the current research wasthe comparison of parental monitoring, affiliation with delinquent peers and high risk behaviors between single parent and two-parent adolescents. 100 single-parent adolescents and 100 two-parent adolescents in Eslamabad-e Gharb city of Kermanshah, Iran, were selected th...

The main purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of rational-emotional behavior therapy (REBT) on behavioral activation/inhibition systems (BAS / BIS), high-risk sexual behaviors, and experimental avoidance in adolescents with a history of running away from home. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pre-test-post-test design with the control group. The statistical ...

Introduction: The issue of social harms and their prevalence among adolescents has become one of the main concerns of families, health system, education and society. The aim of this study was to identify and rank the relationship to high-risk behaviors among students based on the method of hierarchical analysis. Materials and Methods: This research was conducted in a survey method on 60 adolesc...

Introduction: High-risk behaviors following social problems have grown in all societies and in different age and sexual groups. These behaviors are intentional and the person has little control over their possible side effects, such as smoking, alcohol, drugs, psychotropic drugs, and performing early sexual behaviors. The aim of this study was to analysis family-based care and prevention strate...

Objective: The aim of this research was to investigate the effectiveness of behavioral counseling in the decrease of high-risk behaviors in the promotion of quality of life and control of craving beliefs in substance abusers. Method: A quasi-experimental method along with pretest/posttest design and control group was used for the conduct of this research. The research sample consisted of 40 mal...

This study aimed to examine the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction on impulsivity and High Risk Behaviors in adolescents. The study was a quasi-experimental design with pre-posttest experimental and control groups. The statistical population included all high school female students in the academic year was 96-1395. The sample consisted of 32 students, who were selected with available...

The purpose of this study was to investigate the role of the meaning of education and academic engagement in predicting high-risk behaviors in adolescents. The research method was descriptive-correlational-predictive. The statistical population of this study consisted of all female secondary school students in Ardabil during the academic year of 2017-2018. 200 of them were selected by multi-sta...

  Background and Aim: Health-risk behaviors are socially constructed and influenced by the given culture. Therefore, the health-risk behaviors are prioritized differently in diverse cultures. In this study, we aimed to explore the priority of health risk behaviors among high school students in Tehran.   Materials and Methods : In this qualitative study using rapid assessment approach, we interv...