“Development-Implementation of actions and interventions to raise awareness and inform the student population for the school year 2019-2020”& “Promotion of Child and Adolescent Mental Health”
The programs for raising awareness and informing the student population in the context of Health Education are designed by the Ministry of Health of Greece, with the approval of the Ministry of Education and include 18 thematic fields. The6th field refers specifically to the Promotion of Mental Health of Children and Adolescents and is implemented by trained teachers in collaboration with professionals of the Institute of Child Health, the Center for Child Psychology of Athens and Public Health Services. Εspecially the interventions:
1. “The Compass of MySelf” (elementary school students)
2. “Diversity in the School Community as an opportunity for personal development” (elementary school students)
3. “Relaxation Techniques for the Prevention and Control of Stress” (secondary school students)
aim through good practices using printed and audiovisual material
• to empower students socially and emotionally and support their daily lives
• cultivate students’ skills (flexibility, respect, empathy, reciprocity, awareness)
• to meet the need of young people to control the stress implicated in a number of chronic diseases but also in dissolving adolescent behaviors .
Specified material is posted on the website of the Ministry of Health, titled “Promotion of Child and Adolescent Mental Health”
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- CategoryMethodological and pedagogical approaches
- CountryGreece
- LanguageGreek
- Type of resourceWebsite