Handbook of Prevention and Intervention Programs for Adolescent Girls

382 Pages·2008·2.36 MB·English

HANDBOOK OF PREVENTION AND
INTERVENTION PROGRAMS FOR
ADOLESCENT GIRLS
HANDBOOK OF PREVENTION AND
INTERVENTION PROGRAMS FOR
ADOLESCENT GIRLS
Edited by
Craig Winston LeCroy
Joyce Elizabeth Mann
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In memory of Lee LeCroy.
—Craig
To my Ava May, for little Boo: that yours may
be the less-traveled road.
—All my love, Joyce
Contents
Preface ix
Acknowledgments xi
Contributors xiii
Introduction Adolescent Girls and the Pathway to Adulthood 1
Craig Winston LeCroy
Chapter 1 Universal Prevention for Adolescent Girls: The
Go Grrrls Program 11
Craig Winston LeCroy
Chapter 2 Developing Friendships and Peer Relationships:
Building Social Support with the Girls
Circle Program 41
Beth Hossfeld
Chapter 3 A Dissonance-Based Intervention for the
Prevention of Eating Disorders and Obesity 81
Heather Shaw and Eric Stice
Chapter 4 Preventing Depression in Early Adolescent
Girls: The Penn Resiliency and Girls in
Transition Programs 123
Jane E. Gillham, Tara M. Chaplin,
Karen Reivich, and John Hamilton
Chapter 5 Preventing HIV among African American Female
Adolescents: Development and Evaluation of
a Gender and Culturally Congruent
Prevention Intervention 163
Gina Wingood, Jessica Sales, Nikia D. Braxton,
and Ralph DiClemente
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Chapter 6 Manifesting the Strengths of Rural Latina Girls 187
Velia G. Leybas
Chapter 7 Athletes Targeting Healthy Exercise and Nutrition
Alternatives: Harm Reduction/Health Promotion
Program for Female High School Athletes 205
Diane L. Elliot and Linn Goldberg
Chapter 8 Teens with Anorexia Nervosa: A Family-Based
Approach to Treatment 241
Daniel le Grange and James Lock
Chapter 9 Incarcerated Female Teens and Substance
Abuse: The Holistic Enrichment for At-Risk
Teens (HEART) Program 269
Amelia C. Roberts and Chiquitia Welch
Chapter 10 Empirically Validated Approaches to Family
Treatment for Adolescent Girls 305
Jacqueline Corcoran and Jane Phillips
Chapter 11 Mentorship: The GirlPOWER! Program 325
David L. DuBois, Naida Silverthorn, Julia Pryce,
Erin Reeves, Bernadette Sanchez, Adriana Silva,
Akua Anima Ansu, Simona Haqq, and Janet Takehara
Author Index 367
Subject Index 383
Preface
Young girls today live a difficult reality: they are confronted by many pressures,
from feeling they must be beautiful to be liked to coping with life-threatening
behaviors such as anorexia or substance abuse. In fact, many professionals be-
lieve that girls are more oppressed today than in the recent past. This reality is,
perhaps, best captured by Mary Pipher’s statement from her book, Reviving
Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls (Ballantine Books, 1994): “[Girls
are] coming of age in a more dangerous, sexualized, and media-saturated cul-
ture.” And in contrast to the popular media, which have done a good job of de-
scribing many of the concerns facing young girls today, attention to these issues
from the professional milieu has been lacking. And therein lies the primary pur-
pose of this book: to fill that gap, by presenting exemplary programs that were
designed to promote and strengthen positive functioning and address problem-
atic realities of the adolescent female.
We believe that ensuring a better future for adolescent girls involves, first, de-
veloping and, then making available, the resources they and their families need
to navigate these difficult years. Such resources may come in any form, from a
simple program organized by a parent or interest group, to promote better infor-
mation, services, and programs for adolescent girls, to a major task force for
change. As exemplified by the various programs described in the chapters of this
book, clearly no one program will turn the tide; rather, it will be the cumulative
effect of many types of programs that will ultimately lead to the better future we
all want for adolescent girls. It is our hope that this book will inspire more ef-
forts to develop new programs, involve more young girls, and, eventually, gener-
ate enough force to change their future.
We believe this book will be of keen interest to a broad range of profession-
als who are working to design protective measures and reduce risk factors
for adolescent girls. Direct practitioners such as social workers, psychologists,
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teachers, youth development workers, and school principals will find the prac-
tical format used to describe the programs valuable in their work. Many of
these programs can be developed and implemented in various settings: schools,
YWCAs, youth camps, after-school programs, mental health agencies, and
youth agencies.
More, we hope readers will be inspired to implement one of these programs,
or design their own programs, or encourage others to become involved in the ef-
fort to offer more and better services to adolescent girls. We also challenge read-
ers to become advocates for programs designed specifically to meet the needs of
teen girls. Ideally, the issues we address in this text will help to raise awareness
and, subsequently, serve as a launch pad for further work. Thus, we intend this
book also to serve as a resource for researchers and practitioners who are study-
ing gender-specific programs.
When we began this undertaking, we naively assumed that the widespread in-
terest in the issues, needs, and developmental obstacles faced by adolescent girls
would make compiling a handbook of programs devoted to them an easy task. It
proved to be much more difficult than we had imagined. In fact, we learned
there simply are not that many gender-specific programs to be found for teen
girls. As it turned out, although the term gender-specific may be commonly
used, and discussed theoretically, the programmatic reality is far from what we
had imagined. For example, we could not find enough literature for a chapter on
a gender-specific program for girls with depression—even though, as is well
known, depression is overrepresented in girls, and those suffering from it have a
depressed cognitive thought process and ruminate in ways that can be cogni-
tively destructive. It is only recently that a few individuals have started to think
about how gender-specific programs might benefit girls with depression—or,
better, prevent depression from developing. And this is just one example; efforts
are even less developed in other areas of concern for adolescent girls.
We look forward to the second edition of this book because much work is still
required to develop, test, and disseminate programs that can have a positive in-
fluence on young adolescent girls.
CRAIGWINSTONLECROY
JOYCEELIZABETHMANN
Acknowledgments
We heartily thank the contributors to this book for forging ahead and beginning
the process of making gender-specific programs a reality.
We would also like to acknowledge the excellent staff at John Wiley & Sons,
Inc., who have helped us with this book, in particular: Peggy Adams Alexander
who helped bring the book into existence with her long-term encouragement;
Isabel Pratt who kept the project going; and Lisa Gebo, who recently picked up
the reins and helped us finish this important undertaking.
Finally, we extend our appreciation to adolescent girls, whose cause prompted
the creation this book, and with whom these programs were developed, and for
whom this book was ultimately written. We further extend our appreciation to
you, the reader, as you work to build a better future for adolescent girls.
Thank you all.
C. W. L.
J. E. M.
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Contributors
Akua Anima Ansu, MPH David L. DuBois, PhD
School of Public Health Associate Professor
University of Illinois—Chicago Institute for Health Research and Policy
Chicago, Illinois University of Illinois—Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
Nikia D. Braxton, MPH, CHES
Department of Behavioral Science and Diane L. Elliot, MD
Health Education Professor of Medicine
Rollins School of Public Health Division of Health Promotion and
Emory University Sports Medicine
Atlanta, Georgia Oregon Health and Science University
Portland, Oregon
Tara M. Chaplin, PhD
Department of Psychology Jane E. Gillham, PhD
University of Pennsylvania Department of Psychology
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
Jacqueline Corcoran, PhD
Associate Professor Linn Goldberg, MD
School of Social Work Professor of Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University Head of the Division of Health
Alexandria, Virginia Promotion and Sports Medicine
Oregon Health and Science University
Ralph DiClemente, PhD Portland, Oregon
Candler Professor; Associate Director
Prevention Science John Hamilton, MD
Emory Center for AIDS Research for Permanente Medical Group
Behavioral Science of California
Atlanta, Georgia Sacramento, California
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