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The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment

The mission of The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment is to provide psychiatric stabilization, comprehensive evaluation, assessment, treatment, and integrated prescriptive services for adolescents found eligible for treatment. The Aspen Institute for Behavioral Assessment provides comprehensive assessment services, crisis stabilization, early intensive treatment, and integrated, comprehensive prescriptive evaluations that chart the course for troubled teens to get back on track.

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"Work-based Sex-ed" for Parents Better than Classes in Schools

A new study of "work-based sex education for parents" increased parent/teen home discussions about menstruation, birth control, wet dreams and other difficult topics.

Researchers enrolled over 500 parents of teenagers in eight weekly sessions at their work places in a program called "Talking with Your Teens about Tough Issues." Participants reported that after taking the course, they became more comfortable initiating difficult discussions with their teens about sexual issues.

Some experts believe that teaching parents to educate their teens about such matters might work better than having the public schools do it partly because there is so much disagreement about whether to use abstinence-only programs.

This study appears in the British Medical Journal.

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