Title

Best School-Based Practices With Adolescent Parents

Keywords

Behavioral skills; Decision-making; School-based intervention; Self-sufficiency; Taking charge curriculum; Teenage parents

Abstract

Pregnant and parenting adolescents continue to be an at-risk population in schools. With a 60% dropout rate, they are far less likely than their peers to graduate from high school, and they and their children are more likely to live in poverty than parents who delay pregnancy beyond adolescence. Skillsbased interventions that include problem-solving and coping skills have been found to be effective in school programs with other adolescent problems, such as drugs and alcohol, school dropout, and antisocial behavior. Such interventions are gaining support as being effective with teen parents. This chapter examines the foundations of a cognitive-behavioral skills-based approach, as well as the compatibility of using a task-centered group for skills-building interventions. It looks at the Taking Charge curriculum, a group intervention for helping adolescent mothers achieve coping and problemsolving skills toward graduating from high school, and becoming more competent parents and self-sufficient adults.

Publication Date

4-1-2010

Publication Title

The School Practitioner's Concise Companion to Preventing Dropout and Attendance Problems

Number of Pages

-

Document Type

Article; Book Chapter

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195370577.003.0009

Socpus ID

84922761272 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/84922761272

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS