There are dozens of teenage health programs available which aimed to motivate and lead the youngsters to a healthier and mindfulness lifestyle.
1. Stress Management Program
Recent research and media attention has highlighted the soaring levels of stress that young people experience in today’s society, with psychological disorder registered as occurring in as many as one in ten young people aged 11‐15.
However, relatively little is known about how stress levels affect the well‐being and behavior of young people. Although English, Maths and other core curriculum subjects are always taught to us at school, stress management or other psychological techniques are not routinely included in the timetable.
Government should put stress management on the school agenda and attempt to make it a key part of the curriculum and school life. Another essential part of the health program involved teaching students how to recognize and record different symptoms of stress, to lead to the selection of a suitable stress management technique.
For example, positive thinking techniques could help to reduce the symptom of worry whereas aromatherapy could help reduce the symptom of muscular tension.
2. Teenage Drug Prevention Program
The sharply rising rates of drug use among young people captured the attention of politicians, commentators and academic researchers across the world. School should provide education program aimed at reducing the acceptability of drugs to young people.
A collaborative approach involving education and other public and private sector agencies was proposed. Such teenagers health program can be based on based on a partnership between health, education and other public and private sector agencies, namely a local health authority, a mental health trust, the local education authority and participating schools.
The health program should work closely with local health promotion and school police liaison officers. In fact, it aimed to provide pupils with information about drugs and training in resistance and life skills.
Moreover, teachers may deliver the program with training and support from the program, while parent should also attempt to produce community involvement. Furthermore, it is important to provide students with accurate, credible and consistent drug information to educate teenagers in school.
Teenage drug education program may deliver in many styles such as sociology-cultural influences. PSHE education, namely Personal, Social, Health and Economic education is a program that provide information and the development of knowledge, skills and attitudes that enable teenager to make effective choices which will help them to live cheerful, healthy, flourishing lives, now and in the future.
By implementing the PSHE education, teenagers are better in understanding themselves and self-interest which would help them to embrace a drug-free life.
3. Eating Disorder Prevention Program
Eating disorders are one of the most common mental illnesses, effecting upwards of 13% of women between the ages of 15–25 and about 4% of young men. Unhealthy disordered eating behaviors such as extreme dieting or over-exercising, affect one third to one half of adolescent girls and boys.
It is reported that disordered eating behaviors may include at least one of the following – fasting, skipping meals to lose weight, consuming diet pills, vomiting, smoking, as well as binge eating. Furthermore, reports of dieting, fear of fatness, body image concerns and weight loss attempts, as well as cases of more serious eating disorders have been documented in children as young as seven years old.
Hence, these eating disorder prevention programs are aiming at encouraging healthy eating and physical activity among children and adolescents without promoting fad diets, weight loss attempts and the diet‐binge cycle.
Those involved in the planning of educational programs to promote sensible eating and prevent body image and eating problems such as teachers, health educators, dietitians, school administrators, nurses, researchers, policy makers and those responsible for food product development, marketing and advertising – should remember one of the most basic principles of modern medicine – “first, do no harm”.
There have been warnings about the potential to do more harm than good when attempting to prevent eating disorders. The use of negative language, a focus on problem‐based messages such as sugar and fat are “bad” and use of the term “junk food” contribute to the underlying fear of food, dietary fat and weight gain which precede body image concerns and eating problems.
Adolescents need to know that they can enjoy a variety of different foods in a balanced diet and they need to be enabled to do so in a positive, motivating atmosphere. So, negative messages or those that produce guilt, shame or fear of food are likely to do more harm than good.
4. Anti- Smoking Campaign
Nowadays, cigarette smoking has become a common as well as fashionable trend among youngsters. Most of the youngsters smoke for the sake of their peer group or due to peer influence.
Whilst most smoking related diseases occur in middle and older age groups, adolescents who smoke have more respiratory infections, poorer lung function, and for those with asthma, a worsening of symptoms compared to non‐smokers.
There is also growing evidence that youth smoking is a marker for mental health problems in adulthood and there is some evidence to suggest that anxiety and depression in teenagers increases the likelihood of nicotine dependence.
Anti-smoking media campaigns and advertising has proved to be an effective way to reduce the prevalence of smoking among adolescents significantly. The media campaigns can influence teenager’s behavior and lessen the magnitude of tobacco consumption by convincing them to quit smoking.
A combination of large-scale media campaigns with state and community level strategies also have the potential to curtail tobacco use across diverse populations. In short, awareness programs by media and behavioral interventions have an enormous effect on reducing the smoking amount on teenager.
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