Reducing Unintended Pregnancy: Contraceptive Counseling Approaches for Adolescents (Session 2) 

This is an evidence informed contraceptive counseling approach to support community wide efforts to reduce teen pregnancy prevention by increasing access to and use of hormonal contraception in sexually active youth. 

As a result of participating in this training, participants will be able to:

1. Identify the characteristics of each adolescent developmental stage
2. Describe how brain development impacts adolescent decision-making
3. Apply most recent research regarding adolescent contraceptive behavior as an underpinning for a counseling approach
4. Demonstrate the skills required to utilize Motivational Interviewing to more effectively counsel adolescents
5. Explain  how to strategically use Motivational Interviewing skills to provide effective contraceptive counseling
6. Demonstrate skills in determining pregnancy interventions as a primary component of contraceptive counseling

Target Audience: Clinicians, Health Educators or Social Workers providing direct counseling to adolescents on contraception 

An application for 5.75 contact hours has been made to SC DHEC. SC Department of Health and Environmental Control is an approved provider of continuing nursing education by the South Carolina Nurses Association, an accredited approver by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation.