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The Life Skills Education and School Mental Health Programme RANJANA SINGH
You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where theyre going. P. J. O Rourke
1 billion
adolescents in the world
adolescent: 10 - 19 years
youth : 15 - 24 years
Empowering adolescents
Provide opportunities for making informed choices in real life situations. Improve adolescent-friendly health services and link with existing programmes. Provide education and build life skills. Create a safe and supportive environment.
Psychological Social
Adolescence . . . . . Redefined
Adolescent Self-concept
Opinion of peers
Raising a child is very much like building a skyscraper. If the first few storeys are out of line, no one will notice.
But when the building is eighteen or twenty storey high, everyone will see that it tilts.
Substance Use/Abuse
Mental Health Promotion.
LIFE SKILLS
Life skills are abilities for adaptive and positive behaviour that enable individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life.
Life skills are abilities that facilitate the physical, mental and emotional well-being of an individual (WHO)
(WHO)
Self awareness Problem solving/decision making Critical thinking/creative thinking Planning and goal setting
Negotiation Skills Managing feelings / emotions Resisting peer / family pressure Consensus building Advocacy skills
Life Skills
Decision making
Creative thinking
Critical thinking
Overt rejection
Reaction of child
Frustration, lack of confidence, obsessive ness Delay in maturation, protracted dependence on mother spoilt child behaviour
Overprotection
Parenting
PARENTAL GUIDELINES
Effective discipline should be clear, consistent and concurrent.
Give positive feedback or recognition for adaptive and healthy behaviours. Inform in advance the consequences of exceeding those limits. Enforce the consequences immediately and without fail.
It is this fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.
Albert Einstein