Teacher Trainings on Adolescent Health
 

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Adolescence is a period of significant change for a person’s sexual, physical, emotional, and behavioral growth. Strong guidance from parents and teachers can help a teen through these stressful and new experiences.

Developmentally, adolescence age is accompanied by major physical and emotional changes that alter a young person’s relationships and patterns of interaction with others.

The transition into adolescence begins with the move towards independence from parents and the need to establish one’s own values, personal and sexual identity, and the skills and competencies needed to compete as an adult. If this transitory stage is not satisfied and concerns not addressed appropriately the resultant adult can be maladjusted.

This project of ‘Adolescent Health’ therefore aims to raise the awareness and address the issues of this sensitive age so that healthy individuals become the future of our beautiful world. Secondary school teachers of semi-government, private, and NGO schools are the targets.

The objectives of Adolescent Health are:

• To sensitize teachers and enhance skills to address adolescent behavior and classroom problems rooted  in the developmental stage of children.
• To enhance the ‘observational skills’ of teachers helping them critically observe their students behavior.
• To make the teachers familiar with growth and development of children (Ages 12-18); finely enhancing the ability to deal with their students' problems.
• To create an understanding of signs / forms and causes of child misbehavior.
• To orient teachers with different types of abuse and how teachers can help to prevent abuse.
• To enhance the understanding of teachers about the significance of their role for the protection of children.
• To help the teachers understand the concept of self-esteem.
• To highlight the causes and effects of child sexual abuse (CSA) on development of adolescents.
• To give an insight to the teachers about 'conduct disorder'
• To familiarize the teachers with learning disabilities among adolescents.
• To enhance the communication skills of teachers in order for them to be able to deal with teenager problems.

• To equip the teachers with anger management tips for students.