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The use of values in counseling pregnant adolescents

Dawson, Deborah Anne
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057765131

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1994, Doctor of Philosophy, Case Western Reserve University, Social Welfare.
This research tested a psychological method of counseling with pregnant adolescents that incorporated three structured value discussions, at 24, 30, and 36 weeks gestation into the established individual counseling session at an outpatient obstetric clinic. Stratified random sampling was used to obtain fifty subjects for the experimental group and fifty for the control group from African American, Hispanic and Caucasian sixteen- to eighteen-year old pregnant adolescents entering an obstetric clinic. The experimental design used the Rokeach Value Survey, (Form G, 1983) which consists of eighteen terminal and eighteen instrumental values and was given as a pre and post-test. The research examined the effects of structured value discussions and/or demographic characteristics on the changes in rank ordering of six identified values of "Loving," "Family Security," "Independent," "Responsible," "Self Control," and "Self Respect" from pretest at 24 weeks gestation to post test at 36 weeks gestation. Researchers used a Data Collection Worksheet when conducting the structured value discussions with the adolescents. The responses generated by the adolescents were then analyzed for their qualitative meanings. After experiencing three individual sessions of counseling involving structured value discussions at 24, 30, and 36 weeks gestation, pregnant adolescents did show a statistically significant increase in importance of the values of "Independent," "Responsible," "Self Control" and "Self Respect" from pretest at 24 weeks gestation to post test at 36 weeks gestation, using the Rokeach Value Survey Form G. This method of psychological counseling involving the use of structured value discussions builds on and strengthens our theoretical knowledge base which currently neglects the pregnant adolescents' significant emotional needs and value development. Incorporation of this method into counseling encourages more nurturing, responsive values in adolescents. Those adolescents involved in value discussions were given the stimulus to reflect on their own personal value development and become aware of an inner challenge to grow and change, developing more responsive, functional values.
Elizabeth Tracy (Advisor)
135 p.
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  • Dawson, D. A. (1994). The use of values in counseling pregnant adolescents [Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057765131

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Dawson, Deborah. The use of values in counseling pregnant adolescents. 1994. Case Western Reserve University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057765131.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Dawson, Deborah. "The use of values in counseling pregnant adolescents." Doctoral dissertation, Case Western Reserve University, 1994. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=case1057765131

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