Psychology 2075 Chapter Notes - Chapter 19: Health Promotion, Health Belief Model, Pregnancy Rate

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2075
• Professor: William Fisher

Document Summary

Lifelong process of acquiring info about sex and forming attitudes about identity, relationships, and intimacy. Sieccan sex information and education council of canada resource for info on sexual health. Sexual education should help people achieve positive outcomes and avoid negative ones. Effective sexual health education integrates 4 components: understanding of what is relevant to specific health needs, confidence needed to act on knowledge, skills necessary to enhance sexual health, safe environment to produce best health. School is the main and preferred source of sex info, little to no education at home: not talking about sex with family is a form of communication and sends negative messages. Internet: there is not quality control may have misinformation: sexualityandu. ca is the best. Study: neither schools nor parents provided meaningful discussions about sex. Both focused on prevention of pregnancy and stis: what was missing were issues related to sexual relationships, especially emotional and potentially positive aspects of sexual relationships.