Modern adolescent needs.
“Meeting the needs of the modern adolescent required a modern method. Medicine,
eugenics, psychology, education- all of these modern fields promised to help
the adolescent meet the inevitable struggle with sexuality…Having created adolescence,
they were bound to manage it”
- revolute the old health system? partly or a whole?
- new survey for finding the answers about what actually adolescent want or expectation to see in the health service (some areas contain nuance of specific characteristics in detail)?
It is the same meaning as “patients’ centered”. Practically, we still remain
getting stuck with the traditional system.
Sex education goals
1. Does little to delay the initiation of sex.
2. Improve the usage of contraception.
3. Prevent unwanted pregnancy or
4. Reduce exposure to STIs
Sex education is.....
"about developing young people's skills so that they make informed choices about their behavior, and feel confident to competent about acting on these choices. It is widely accepted that young people have a right to sex education, partly, because it is a means by which they are helped to protect themselves against abuse, exploitation, unintended pregnancies, STIs, and AIDS." (AVERT n.d)
The educator can.....use this basic material, flavor it with the particular community's moral and cultural viewpoints, and so provide adolescents secure basis from which to develop their own responsible, fulfilling, and personalized lifestyle. (Greathead et al. 1998: xv)
It wastes time when the educator is conscious of projects the student's future.
So, they must try not to project those beliefs and values onto others. This is extremely difficult, but in doing so a young person must be given the opportunity to make an informed and responsible decision. more trusting relationships will develop and these will improve decision-making skills and allow a more informed choice regarding sexual activity; they will need you, the educator, to be open to discussion, without imposing your values and beliefs on them.
Bare in mind that
The adolescent is not an adult. it refers to the deficiencies of adolescents outlined in a number of places.
" This process of sexual decision-making is more difficult during adolescence, however, owing to factors like the imbalance of hormones, lack of decision-making skills, traditional risk-taking behavior, bombardment by sexual images by the media, and a belief that adulthood only starts once a sexual activity is experienced." .....the choice of what to do when the pregnancy is confirmed is too serious a matter for the level of maturity of most teenagers. (Greathead et al. 1998: page 154)
The role of friends and peers.
The depiction of the peer group as providing unreliable information and being a negative influence in the sexual decision-making process.
the result of not providing sexual education is that they seek answers from friends ill-equipped to provide correct factual answers. the group may put pressure on the non-conformity, e.g. ridicule, and rejection.
peers presented here as providing inaccurate information and as pressurizing each other into inappropriate behavior.
The consequences of adolescent pregnancy the outcomes are slightly negative.
The baby aspect, according to young motherhood is immaturity. they tend to have several problematic issues for their baby due to
- lack of ability to cope with problems
- lack of parenting skills
- the impact of aspects of patenting such as
* mother-infant interaction
* attitudes to child disciplines
* development of realistic expectations of infant behavior and development.
for these reasons, a child is at high risk of child maltreatment among younger parents e.g. being abused, abandoned, or neglected.
problematic for young mothers themselves because of their lack of skills or maturity.
1. Physical and mental health; postpartum blue, stress, anxiety.
2. Social aspects; separation, divorce.
3. Economic aspects; after giving birth it is undeniable that a young mother is bombardment by the burden of looking after her baby. Whereas, she cannot ask for money from their family as usual. There is real life when they are facing economic difficulties such as
- They are unskilled labor. (lack of work competency)
- They are too young and cannot legally engage in labor markets. (unemployment)
- lack of life skills (e.g patient capability to work). these put pressure on them to have risk-taking behavior such as
- Engage in dark businesses like illegal drug-seller, and sexual traffic.
- To escape the pain from the failure of problem-solving in the real world. some turn to drug use because they see it as a shortcut to happiness. some do self-harm.
