Open your eyes! A school improvement project for the prevention of drug abuse in teenagers

• Main Author: Cecilia Mª Azorín Abellán
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidad Complutense de Madrid 2016-01-01
• Series: Revista Complutense de Educación
• Subjects: proyecto de mejora; drogas; prevención; adolescentes; educación secundaria
• Online Access: http://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RCED/article/view/45532

<p>Education for Health is a cross-curricular theme that lacks innovative teaching suggestions for pedagogical intervention. The aim of the work presented is to implement an improvement plan for the prevention of drug addiction in adolescents. To do this, we worked with a total of 142 students from 3rd Compulsory Secondary Education (ESO) aged between 14 and 16 years studying in the "Francisco Salzillo" Institute of Alcantarilla (Murcia). Specifically, this article gives light to the Project Open your eyes! Which is part of the Tutorial Action Plan and proposed in the Department Improvement Plan for Drug Prevention Guide. Ad hoc activities during the 3 sessions worked with each of the 6 groups-school class at this level are presented. Using reflection-action, the students developed a critical awareness of the risks to health drug. Also, using the technique of focus groups learners made an interesting debate whose ideas have been organized around three key issues: reasons why you start to consume, how to avoid falling into drugs, and alternative recreational free time for a healthier life. Finally, it specifies the need to address prevention efforts in schools and to provide information and resolve the concerns of young people about this subject.</p>