Sentences with phrase «adolescent health programmes»

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In addition, we carry out information, education, communication and advocacy programmes; STI and HIV / AIDS prevention, detection and treatment; as well as health, education and support programmes designed specifically to benefit vulnerable communities, such as adolescents, refugees and internally displaced people.

This programme initiated by the Ghana Health Service will be run in phases with the first phase targeting about 360,000 in - school adolescent girls and close to 600,000 out of schoolgirls in four regions.

Joseph A Durlak is a Professor of Psychology at Loyola University Chicago and his major interests are in mental health promotion and prevention programmes for children and adolescents ([email protected]).

Dr Alys Cole - King Clinical Director, of the Social Enterprise Connecting with People, and Dr Stan Kutcher, Sun Life Financial Chair in Adolescent Mental Health, offer advice to parents on talking to their children about the programme and its difficult subject matter

Identifying the factors associated with good mental health among Aboriginal children and adolescents may provide powerful tools to inform health - promoting policies and programmes.

To achieve this, the project centred on the combined delivery of the Parents Plus Adolescents Programme (an intervention teaching relationship - building, positive communication, and conflict resolution skills to parents) and the Working Things Out programme (a small group mental health intervention for young people, promoting positive mental health and building coping capacity) to families targeted in mental health and school settings.

A CBT based youth mental health programme that can be used with small groups of adolescents to build coping capacity, promote positive emotional health and to support them in overcoming specific problems.

Sixty - seven adolescents attending child and adolescent mental health services were randomly allocated to the Working Things Out CBT based group programme or to «treatment as usual».

Home visiting, evidence - based parenting programmes and multicomponent interventions have been shown to be effective in other parts of the world.45 Given the wide number of contexts in which abuse occurs, these services should be integrated with education, family health services such as maternal health, early childhood development, immunisations and adolescent health services as suggested by a recent Child Maltreatment Readiness Assessment in South Africa.46

The The School Bullying Phenomenon and Anti-bullying Programmes: a research review is a comprehensive overview of bullying prepared by For Adolescent Health, Greece, with contributions from all ENABLE partners.

The aim of these briefs is to improve efforts to collect rigorous evidence for programmes and policies on adolescent health and well - being.

The role of early childhood education programmes in the promotion of child and adolescent mental health in low - and middle - income countries

Parenting interventions that are delivered during this developmental period are necessary in order to capture the groups of youth and families (i) currently experiencing problems, but who did not receive an intervention during early childhood; (ii) those who received an intervention in early childhood, but who continue to experience problems and (iii) those who are not currently experiencing problems, but are at risk for developing problems later in adulthood.7 In Steinberg's 2001 presidential address to the Society for Research on Adolescence, a concluding remark was made for the need to develop a systematic, large - scale, multifaceted and ongoing public health campaign for parenting programmes for parents of adolescents.8 Despite the wealth of knowledge that has been generated over the past decade on the importance of parents in adolescent development, a substantial research gap still exists in the parenting literature in regards to interventions that support parents of adolescents.

A population approach to parenting programmes for parents of adolescents aims to modify parenting behaviours to produce multiple beneficial health and developmental outcomes for young people at the population level.3, 11,41 A population approach can normalize and destigmatize parenting experiences.

The mass media can play an important role in providing health information and related issues for parents and caregivers.10 However, adolescents are typically portrayed in the media as hostile, violent, delinquent, alienated from parents and families, and resistant to any assistance.3, 51,52 In news and television coverage, content analyses found that adolescents are depicted as perpetrators or victims of crime and violence, problem - ridden and disruptive.51, 52 In addition to the mass media images, public attitudes towards adolescents are predominately negative.51 A population approach to build a climate of public interest and responsiveness will require actively working towards counteracting the predominantly negative media coverage of adolescents.3 Media messages can raise parents» awareness and willingness to attend parenting programmes by normalizing their experiences of receiving professional support.

This work has recently been extended by the adoption of a public health model for the delivery of parenting support with parents of younger children.9, 11,40 Various epidemiological surveys show that most parents concerned about their children's behaviour or adjustment do not receive professional assistance for these problems, and when they do, they typically consult family doctors or teachers who rarely have specialized training in parent consultation skills.10 Most of the family - based programmes targeting adolescents are only available to selective subpopulations of adolescents (those who have identified risk factors) and / or indicated subgroups of youth (those who already possess negative symptoms or detectable problems).