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"Mbizi": Empowerment and HIV/AIDS Prevention for Adolescent Girls in Botswana
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Nitza, Amy; Chilisa, Bagele; Makwinja-Morara, Veronica – Journal for Specialists in Group Work, 2010
This article describes a small group intervention for HIV/AIDS prevention among adolescent girls in Botswana. The psychoeducational group model is designed to empower girls to overcome the gender inequality that puts women at increased risk of HIV infection in the country. Group goals include heightening group members' awareness of the influence…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Females, Foreign Countries, Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS)
Psychoeducation in an Outpatient Setting--Designing a Heterogeneous Format for a Heterogeneous Population of Juvenile Delinquents.
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Carpenter, Patricia; Sugrue, Dennis P. – Adolescence, 1984
Describes the G.I.T. (Getting It Together) program, a heterogeneous delinquent treatment program combining affective education and social skills training. Delinquents with immature personalities or neurotic features appeared to benefit more from the program than those with characterological disorders. (JAC)
Descriptors: Adolescents, Delinquency, Group Therapy, Heterogeneous Grouping
Teaching Students How to Understand and Avoid Abusive Relationships.
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Becky, Debra; Farren, Peggy M. – School Counselor, 1997
Describes a psychoeducational group model for teenage girls. Group goals include helping students define and avoid abusive relationships and the consequences of abuse. Outlines group composition and formation, program content, the context for abuse, warning signs, date rape, date rape prevention, conflict management, and building communication…
Descriptors: Adolescent Behavior, Adolescents, Aggression, Counseling Techniques
Youth in Psychoeducational Services Program (Special Education). E.S.E.A. Title IV-C. Final Evaluation Report, 1979-1980.
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Div. of Research, Planning and Evaluation. – 1981
During the 1979-1980 school year, 16 severely emotionally disturbed secondary school students participated in the Youth in Psychoeducational Services (YIPS) program. The program provided intensive academic and behavioral treatment, family counseling, and staff development activities. YIPS was evaluated using a model that required the comparison of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Behavior Change, Behavior Problems
Preparing Humanistic Teachers for Troubled Children.
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Knoblock, Peter; And Others – 1974
The 4-year experimental project of Syracuse University to prepare special teachers for work with troubled 5- to 18-year-old inner city children focused on the individual growth of trainees who practiced in two public elementary schools, a campus based school, and a neighborhood boy's club. The project's psychoeducational philosophy led to creation…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Community Resources, Curriculum Development, Disadvantaged Youth
Therapeutic Foster Care. Volume III. Series on Community-Based Services for Children and Adolescents Who Are Severely Emotionally Disturbed.
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Stroul, Beth A. – 1989
This document is part of a series of monographs on community-based services for children and adolescents who are severely emotionally disturbed. The series is the product of a national study of community-based service approaches which identified over 200 programs serving emotionally disturbed children and included visits to several programs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Child Welfare, Children, Community Services
Applied Psychology in the Junior High School: Teaching ESL Communicative Skills to Twelve-to-Fourteen-Year-Olds.
Adams-Smith, Diana E. – 1978
Boys and girls in the early years of adolescence can best learn ESL communicative skills if the instructor has an understanding of the main characteristics of early adolescence and an appreciation of the teaching techniques best adaped to them. Characteristics which should be taken into account when designing an ESL course include the following:…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Class Activities, Communicative Competence (Languages), Educational Games