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Programs designed to educate about sex
Topics include:
-Reproductive anatomy and physiology
-Sexual development
-Human reproduction
-Family life issues
-Relationships and interpersonal skills
-Contraception
-HIV
-Sexual abuse and assult
-Contraversial issues (abortion, etc.) |
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| Teaching that abstinence is the only sure way to avoid pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases |
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| Abstinence-only Education |
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| Teaches abstinence from all sexual activity is the only appropriate option for unmarried people. Does not include information on contraception. |
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| Abstinence-plus Education |
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| Teaches the benefits of abstinence while also teaching about contraception and disease-prevention methods |
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Birth control
Contraversy is over whether giving kids information about them would encourage them to have sex |
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Highly effective prevention strategy.
Uses young people as credible prevention messengers to promote healthy lifestyles among other young people. |
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| HIV (Human Immunodeficiency Virus) |
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| Cause of AIDs, this attacks the cells of the immune system so that the body loses its ability to fight infection and certain cancers. |
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Life threatening diseases that are caused by pathogens that do not cause illness in healthy people.
AIDs patients are more suseptible to these diseases. |
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| Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) |
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| One fourth of the cases are teenagers. Transmitted through sexual activity. |
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| Viral infection caused by herpes simplex virus that cannot be cured. Charcterized by recurrent and unpredictable outbreaks. Painful and blisterlike sores, the virus can be spread from mother to baby during delivery. |
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| Result of infection with Human Papiloloma virus (HPV). Can easily spread to sexual partner or baby through delivery. Females with this infection are at a higher risk from cervical cancer. |
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| Bacterial infection that when treated early can be effectively treated with antibiotic drugs. If left untreated can develop into serious health concerns and csn cause birth defects in a developing fetus. |
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| A virus that can cause a serious viral infection of the liver. Is preventable through vaccination. |
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| A highly infectious sexually transmitted disease caused by a bacterium that can causes ulcers in the genitals or painful swelling in the groin area, or both.Can effectively be treated with antibiotics. |
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| Common STD caused by protozoal organism. This organism can be spread by towels, sheets, because it can remain alive on external objects for up to 1.5 hours. |
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| Caused by a yeastlike fungus |
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| "Crabs" Caused by parasites that are spread by sexual contact. |
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| Result of a bacterial infection and is the most common sexually transmitted disease in the US. |
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| A Bacterial infection that is one of the oldest and most widespread sexually transmitted dieases. Most females infected are asymptomatic. If left untreated, can result in pelvic inflammatory disease. |
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| Teaching teens that not everyone is drinking, smoking or doing drugs. |
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| Peer tutors and peer counselors |
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| Older students who teach younger students about drugs and how to resist pressures to use them. Students who have received specific training in how to listen, avoid making judgements, maintain confidentiality and be supportive of others. |
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| An approach that stresses the positive physical, social, and emotional benefits of being healthy and acting safely. |
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| Students who are at high risk for becoming a substance user or who are already abusing drugs. |
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| An effective method of in-school or out- of school assistance for students and staff. |
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| Enters through smoke into the blood and starts affecting the brain within seven seconds. Activates the same reward system as other drugs such as cocaine. Increases heart rate and blood flow. Stimulates release of epinephrine. Releases betaendorphin which inhibits pain. Responsible for drug-induced feelings of pleasure. |
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| Thin, unfiltered cigarettes produced in India that are wrapped in brown leaves and tied with a short length of thread. |
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| Clove cigarettes that are sometime mistaken for bidis. |
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| Chewing tobacco and snuff |
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| Delivers nicotine to the central nervous system. Can produce feelings of euphoria- exaggerated feelings of well-being. |
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| Abnormally thickened, wrinkled, and whitish patch of tissue. These occur at the site where tobacco is held in the mouth. Some transform into precancerous and cancerous lesions in the mouth, throat, esophogus or on the tongue or lip. |
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| A complex, progressive disease that involves a progressive preoccupation with drinking that leads to physical, mental, social and or economic dysfunction. |
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| Often, but not always the eldest child. Their role is to make up for the deficits in the fmaily, diverting attention from the alcoholic by achieving or overachieving in schoolwork, athletics, music or other pursuits. They often assume parenting responsibilities. |
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| "Problem child" because he/she displays rebelliousness, irresponsibility, breaking rules, talking back or acting out. Serves to divert attention from the alcholic parent by allowing the outside world to believe that the family is fine, but they are only the problem child and troublemaker. |
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| May fade into the family and classroom "woodwork" never causing any trouble or calling attention to himself, thereby being the one child in the family that the parents do not have to worry about. Tends to be quiet, to have few friends, and to seldom cause problems. Likes to work alone at school and is often creative in nonverbal ways such as art, music, etc. Typically daydreams and fanasizes to escape painful reality. |
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| Family clown diverts attention from the alcoholic parent and reduces family tension by being cute or funny. Makes repeated attempts to be humorous or funny. They need to learn how to receive attention, praise in appropriate manners. |
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| A fellowship of people who have been affected by the alchohol abuse of someone. They meet in small groups to harness the strength and hope of others who have lived with alcholism. |
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| Same as Al-Anon but restricted to those under 20 who live or have lived with someone who abuses alcohol. |
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| Strong stimulant derived from the leaves of the coca bush from South America. |
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| Made be processing cocaine hydrochloride to a base state with baking soda and water. Looks like slivers of soap but has the texture of porcelain, smoked in a pipe and produces an intense cocaine high. |
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| The sensation of having insects crawling under the skin. |
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| A narcotic drug that is processed from morphine extracted from the opium poppy. Usually injected, sniffed or smoked. Enters system fast and rapidly progresses to addiction. |
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| The Body adapts to the presence of the drug |
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| Occur if use if reduced abruptly. May occur within a few hours. Restlessness, muscle and bone pain, insomnia, diarrhea, vomiting, cold flashes with goose bumps. |
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| Dried shredded flowers and leaves of a hemp plant. Smoked as a cigarette in a pipe or bong. |
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| Cigarettes emptied of tobacco and refilled with marijuana. |
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| Accounts for the major psychoactive effects of marijuana. |
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| The dried and pressed flowers and resins, special breeds of marijuana. Up to 12 % THC. |
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| General term for a number of illicit drugs, primarily synthetic, that are most commonly encountered at nightclubs abd "raves". |
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| Most popular club drug. "Ectasy" contains stimulant and mild hallucinoginic properties. Reduces inhibitions, eliminates anxiety, and produces feelings of empathy for others. |
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| A potent hallucinogenic drug. Colorless, odorless and tasteless. Taken orally. Alters perceptions. |
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| alterations of vision and other senses. |
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| A crossing of the scenes- seeing sounds or hearing colors. Sometimes overlapping feelings of elation and depression or relaxation and tension. |
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| Snorted like cocaine. Depressant, stimulant, hallucinoginic, and alalgesic properties. |
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| Powerful sedative-hypnotic in the same class of drugs as valium. |
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| Date rape dru. Depressant. Causes dizziness, confusion, overwhelming drowsiness and unconsciousness. Liquid odorless, colorless etc. |
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| Legal drug in US for veterinary anesthetic. Amnesia and dreamlike memories. Date rape drug. |
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| Include chemical cpmponents of commercial products such as paint thinners, gasoline, kerosene, nail polish removers, etc. |
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| Products discharged by propellant force of compressed gas. Hairsprays,spray paints, cooking sprays, and Freon gas. |
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| Nitrous oxide, halothane and other gases. Most widely used is nitrous oxide. |
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| Synthetic derivatives of male hormone testosterone. Often used by athletes to increase perfomance. |
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| Repreated infliction or attempted infliction of injury, discomfort or humilation on a weaker student by one or more students with power. |
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| Educators first and formost resposibility of teacher is to get help for a child. |
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| Indicate that a student is very close to behaving in a way that is potentially dangerous to self and/or others. These require an immediate response. |
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| Conflict Resolution Skills |
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| Taught to children as a means of reducing their risk of perpetuation of and victimization from violence. |
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| non-accidental physical injury to a child |
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| failure of a child's caregiver to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter or supervision. |
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| the belittling and rejecting the child- not providing a positive emotional atmosphere. |
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| The sexual exploitation of a child done for the gratification of an adult. |
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| Sexual contact between relatives, often a part of sexual abuse |
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| Federal law which forces each state to make public information about sex offenders in that state to protect children. |
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| The act of forcing or coercing someone to have sexual relations against his or her will. |
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| Rapes that occur to victims younger than the age of consent. |
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| involves individuals who know each other casually prior to the rape. |
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| Rape that occurs between two people who are spending time together with the possibility of building a closer relationship. |
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| Rape occurs between spouses |
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| Rape that occurs between a victim and offender who had no prior relationship. |
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| The process of acceptance of a death or loss. Often requires two or more years befre grieving is completed. |
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| Denial, anger, bargaininh, depression, acceptance |
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| an illness that involves the body, mood, and thoughts. Affects the way one eats and sleeps, the way one feels about oneself, and the way one thinks about things. |
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| Manifested by a combination of symptoms that interfere with the ability to work, sleep, study, eat and enjoy pleasureable activities. |
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| A less severe type of depression. Involves longterm chronic symptoms that do not disable but keep one from functioning well or from feeling good. |
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| Manic depressive illness. Involves unusual shifts in mood, energy, and functioning. |
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| Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD) |
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| Affects people who get depressed in the winter months and are better in the spring and summer. |
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| Self-harm or self-mutilation includes deliberate attempts to cause harm to one's own body. The injury usually causes tissue damage. |
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