Religion and adolescent sexuality.
The health professional can be helpful to the adolescent, the adolescent's family, and the community through participating in and initiating local sex education programs. Religious settings provide a great potential for sexuality education within a value framework. A helpful curriculum will include the meaning of sexuality; developing a positive concept of sexuality, and a healthy sexual identity; present the issues of adolescent sexuality, including the various health issues; and an understanding of quality relationships within the family and among peers. If health professions and the community religious institutions can joint together, they can reach the goals of most programs in human sexuality, namely, "learning to appreciate our sexuality as a positive potential for self-expression, fulfillment and intimacy; respect for the personhood and well-being of others; and responsible decision-making."
D000028:Abortion, Induced / Q000523:psychology; D000293:Adolescent; D003268:Contraception Behavior; D005260:Female; D006716:Homosexuality; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D008418:Masturbation; D009014:Morals; D011247:Pregnancy; D011606:Psychosexual Development; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012071:Religion and Sex