Changing the Context Is Important and Necessary, but Not Sufficient, for Reducing Adolescent Risky Sexual Behavior: A Reply to Steinberg (2015).
Starting school later, keeping adolescents busy with structured programming, and making free condoms available, as Steinberg (2015) suggests, are important and necessary steps, but they are simply not sufficient if the goal is reducing sexually transmitted infections and unplanned pregnancy. We agre...
| Publicado en: | Perspectives on Psychological Science Vol. 11; no. 4; pp. 535 - 539 |
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Sage Publications Inc.
Jul2016
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