Prevention and ecology: Teen‐age pregnancy, child sexual abuse, and organized youth sports
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- Published by Wiley in American Journal of Community Psychology
- Vol. 15 (1) , 685
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf00919754
Abstract
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.Keywords
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