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  title info:
    title: Forecasting services for pregnant and parenting adolescents using the Delphi Technique
  name:
    name part: Pruitt, Anna Katherine
    name part: 1948-
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Ash, Michael J.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Barker, Donald G.
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Jones, Diane Carlson
    role:
      role term: degree committee member.
  name:
    name part: Parrish, Linda H.
    role:
      role term: degree supervisor.
  name:
    name part: Texas A & M University
    role:
      role term: degree granting institution.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Academic theses
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1992
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 178 leaves : illustrations ; 29 cm
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to determine existing services and barriers to services at the local level for pregnant and parenting adolescents and to forecast the events that would remove those barriers in the next decade. The Delphi Technique was the research method selected. The study involved surveying the boards of directors of the National Organization on Adolescent Pregnancy and Parenting and the Texas Association Concerned with School Age Parenthood to determine consensus on issues related to services for pregnant and parenting adolescents. Each panel completed three questionnaires. Round I (the first questionnaire) consisted of five open-ended questions reflecting the purposes of this study. For Round II, the researcher categorized the Round I questionnaire responses by type of service, barrier, or event and participants were then asked to rate each item. Round III built on the previous questionnaire by providing the mean rating of each item and the individual panel member's rating on each item. This study reflected consensus among professionals at the state and national levels about the needs of teen parents and pregnant adolescents and the policy changes necessary to meet those needs. However, the responses related to the services, barriers and policy changes that were generated through this series of questionnaires were not significantly different from the results of previous research in the area of adolescent pregnancy. Based on the results of the data analysis of the study, recommendations were made concerning the need for education and information about the realities of adolescent pregnancy, the importance of coordinating services for pregnant/parenting adolescents at the local level, the necessity of emphasizing prevention services, and the need for increasing funding for services. Recommendations for future research included repeating the study with a narrower focus, examining barriers from the point of view of the client as well as the service prov…
  note: "Major subject: Educational Psychology."
  note: Typescript (photocopy).
  note: Vita.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A & M University 1992
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
    geographic code: n-us-tx
  subject:
    topic: Teenage mothers
    topic: Services for
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    topic: Teenage mothers
    topic: Services for
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Teenage pregnancy
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Major educational psychology
  subject:
    topic: Teenage mothers
    topic: Services for
  subject:
    topic: Teenage pregnancy
  subject:
    geographic: Texas
  subject:
    geographic: United States
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  identifier: https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/DISSERTATIONS-1354132
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  record info:
    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 931007
    record change date: 20220103134955.0
    record identifier: in00001160527
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng