You Have Been Asked to Address a Group of Parents

question 67

Essay

You have been asked to address a group of parents about how they can talk to their adolescents about sexual behavior. The two major concerns are pregnancy and contracting sexually transmitted diseases. They want to know how they can best protect their teens. What can you tell them?

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Definitions:

Unconscious Desires

Unconscious Desires are wishes, wants, or needs that an individual is not aware of but that influence behaviors and can be revealed through dreams, slip of the tongue, or psychoanalytical methods.

Mental Gestalts

Integrated patterns or configurations that arise from the psychological organization of thoughts, perceptions, or experiences.

Environmental Stimuli

External events or circumstances that can affect an organism's behavior or physiological responses.

Mental Associations

Mental associations are connections made between different ideas, feelings, or memories in the mind.