DEVELOPMENT OF PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS AND PEER LEADERS ORIENTED ON YOUTH PROBLEMS AND VALUES

1. Tatiana Andreeva, MD, PhD, Konstantin Krasovsky, PhD Kazan Public Foundation Choice, Russian Federation Alcohol and Drug Information Center, Ukraine DEVELOPMENT OF PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS AND PEER LEADERS ORIENTED ON YOUTH PROBLEMS AND VALUES DEVELOPMENT OF TOBACCO PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS AND PEER LEADERS ORIENTED ON YOUTH PROBLEMS AND VALUESTatiana Andreeva, MD, PhD, Konstantin Krasovsky, PhD Kazan Public Foundation Choice, Russian Federation Alcohol and Drug Information Center, Ukraine DEVELOPMENT OF TOBACCO PREVENTION EDUCATIONAL MATERIALS FOR TEACHERS AND PEER LEADERS ORIENTED ON YOUTH PROBLEMS AND VALUESTatiana Andreeva, MD, PhD, Konstantin Krasovsky, PhD Kazan Public Foundation Choice, Russian Federation Alcohol and Drug Information Center, Ukraine

2. The project goal To create instruments, which will let teachers and peer leaders to address intoxicants-related problems in young people�s lives and to deal with the situation where substances of abuse are seen as a means to solve psychological problems and to meet natural needs of teenagers � training materials which could be used in work with teenagers to show them other ways to satisfy their needs and to solve their problems instead of intoxicants.

3. The project objectives are: To reveal and analyze intoxicants-related youth problems. To develop the instrument to address these problems in youth relevant way. To train teachers to use the prepared kit in class.

4. Short description of the method

5. The preconditions of the approach (1) 1. Active participation of the teenager in discussion is more effective, than his passive listening to a lecture. Role playing is one of the most productive ways to develop life skills and behavioral strategies.

6. The preconditions of the approach (2) 2. The game is familiar to everybody since early childhood, comparing to such activity, as the analysis and understanding of the complex text. The game entertains, easily attracts and keeps attention. The approach therefore is applicable and is recommended for rather young participants, does not impose special requirements to the audience.

7. The preconditions of the approach(3) 3. Participating in a situation, the teenager brings in his own senses, attitudes, values, which he subsequently discusses. The offered typical situations are stimulus for projections, enable to look at stereotyped behavior from aside, as at the play. The developed situations are very close to realities of teenagers life, they are not imposed by the adults, the discussions concern the most essential problems of the teenagers.

8. The preconditions of the approach (4) 4. Individuals act as social and cultural norms dictate, because it seems "self-evident". To realize stereotyped behavioral patterns and ways to solve problems is the possibility to be released from their compulsion. The formation of drug free (tobacco free and especially alcohol free) lifestyle is very closely connected to change of cultural norms and systems of symbols.

9. The preconditions of the approach (5) 5. The problem of smoking, drinking and drug taking is frequently not perceived as a problem itself. It is rather a way to solve other important and vital issues - conflicts in family, relations with a peer group. Paying attention to these emotionally significant relations, we get an opportunity to realize the place of legal and illegal drugs in this issues, to show their symbolical, rather than chemical value.

10. Target group of life situations method Main target group Teenagers from 12 to 15 years old Intermediary target group Peer leaders � older teenagers, students, young adults Mediated target group Other teenagers Parents and other family members