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Prevention and ecology: Teen‐age pregnancy, child sexual abuse, and organized youth sports
Author(s) -
Reppucci N. Dickon
Publication year - 1987
Publication title -
american journal of community psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.113
H-Index - 112
eISSN - 1573-2770
pISSN - 0091-0562
DOI - 10.1007/bf00919754
Subject(s) - health psychology , intervention (counseling) , psychological intervention , sexual abuse , psychology , public health , child sexual abuse , prevention science , pregnancy , sexual behavior , poison control , developmental psychology , suicide prevention , medicine , environmental health , psychiatry , biology , genetics , nursing
A multilevel ecological analysis of issues that impact on children and families is advocated as the best theoretical framework for conceptualizing preventive interventions. Teen-age pregnancy and child sexual abuse are discussed as targets of preventive intervention: the former being an issue about which we have much information that has not been adequately used, whereas the latter is one about which we have too little information to be mounting the sweeping prevention programs that are rapidly coming into existence. Organized youth sports is then discussed as a neglected societal vehicle for prevention.