Family Impact On Adolescents Sexual Health

Žydra Kuprėnaitė, Jolita Lubienė, Ramunė Ubeikienė Abstract The family losing the priority of personality formation process and increasing responsibility within the educational institutions, it is important to look back to the family as the basic and most children‘s educational environment. This article aims to reveal the family impact on adolescents’ sexual health. The survey of…

Social Factors Impact on Adolescents Social Health

Žydra Kuprėnaitė, Jolita Lubienė, Ramunė Ubeikienė Abstract In today’s society, where more and more often dominate strange relationships, based on economic calculation, it is especially relevant to analyze the social factors to the emerging personality and its social health. We can distinguish, as particularly important, the following factors: family, friends and school. Each social interaction…

Lithuanian Students Psychotropic Substances (Drugs) Use, Effects and Causality Analysis

Saulius Čaplinskas Abstract Objective. To assess prevalence and social dimensions (family, school and peers) of substance use among Lithuanian adolescents and to provide effective recommendations of substance use prevention. Methods. A survey using a standard questionnaire was administered in three biggest cities of Lithuania (Vilnius, Klaipeda and Kaunas) twice: in 2006 and 2008. The target…