Adult identity mentoring: Reducing sexual risk for African-American seventh grade students

HIV Prevention Among African American Youth: How Well Have Evidence-Based Interventions Addressed Key Theoretical Constructs?

“…Street Smart was the exception with 53% of the sample African American. One additional intervention, Project Adult Identity Mentoring (AIM) [25], met all inclusion criteria but was a youth development intervention based on the Theory of Possible Selves [26], and not a traditional HIV prevention program based on behavioral theory. Because the theoretical framework used for this review differed significantly from the Theory of Possible Selves, we did not include AIM in our overall analysis.…”

Evaluation of the Effects of the Sexual Education Programme SOMOS on Sexual Experience and Attitudes of Adolescents Towards Sexuality // Evaluación de los efectos del Programa de Educación Sexual SOMOS sobre la experiencia sexual y las actitudes hacia la sexualidad de adolescentes

“…With a sample of adolescents in South Africa, of the same age as in this study, Taylor et al (2014) found a significant improvement in their attitudes towards sexual health and towards communication. Other recent works (Bourke et al, 2014;Clark et al, 2005;Givaudan & Pick, 2005;Kirby, 2011;Scull et al, 2014;Walcott et al, 2011) coincide in the specific improvement of attitudes linked to willingness, to prevention and to responsible sexual behaviour. In any case, the improvement of attitudes towards sexuality found in this investigation is remarkable, given the relation between the constructs liberalism-conservatism and erotophilia-erotophobia and the effects of erotophilic attitudes on healthy and satisfactory experiences of sexuality (Carrera et al, 2007;Diéguez et al, 2003;Fisher, 2009;Johnson et al, 1999; 332 DAVINIA HERAS, FERNANDO LARA, AND MARÍA FERNÁNDEZ-HAWRYLAK Psicodidáctica, 2016, 21(2), 321-337 Ramos et al, 2003;Santín, Torrico, López, & Revilla, 2003;Sueiro et al, 2004;Zubeidat, Ortega, Del Villar, & Sierra, 2003).…”

“…Another of the areas that was analyzed is the impact of programmes on the development and improvement of attitudes. In the case of attitude and willingness to use the preservative or towards safe sexual practices, it has been noted that when, included in the curricula, these aspects produce an important improvement in those attitudes (Clark et al, 2005;Givaudan & Pick, 2005;Jennings et al, 2014;Scull et al, 2014;Walcott et al, 2011), while works that have evaluated the general attitude towards the human sexual act find a positive increase in these types of attitudes (Carrera et al, 2007;Pinkleton, Austin, Cohen, Chen, & Fitzgerald, 2008;Taylor et al, 2014). With regard to sexual behaviour, other studies have centred on analyzing the influences of educational proposals, agreeing that they reduce at-risk sexual practices and increase the use of the preservative (Bourke, Boduszek, Kelleher, McBride, & Morgan, 2014;Kirby, 2011), and even, in some cases, delay the onset of sexual coital activity (Duberstein & Maddow-Zimet, 2012;Kirby, 2011).…”

Evidence Based Interventions for Preventing HIV Transmission: Commentary on Rotheram-Borus et al. (2009)

“…In 2002 Clark et al (2005). AIM, based on the theory of possible selves (Markus and Nurius 1986), builds resilience in youth at high risk by motivating them to use mental images of their possible future self.…”