Alcohol Consumption Prevention Programs In Minors

Alcohol consumption prevention programs in minors

To succeed when mediating in young people, it is better to work in prevention and promotion projects against alcoholic beverages. These programs must intervene in the person, family, school and community, considering that there are programs at the macro level proposed by the State. Public and private institutions or entities that carry out prevention programs or activities: school, health center/hospital, police station/PNP, regional government, provincial municipality, district municipality, NGOs, Church, etc.

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In the educational and family field

Alcohol prevention projects are more effective in involving information, training in skills, self-control and values training. It is also important. At the same time, train teachers about an interdisciplinary approach due to their contact and experience. The contents must include issues of the effects of alcohol, cognitive development in order to prevent behavioral and academic difficulties. The contents to be developed will deal with: development of self – esteem, rejection of the consumption of alcoholic beverages, self-control strategies, styles and ways of coping, problem solving strategies, tutoring for academic problems (Vallejos, 2005).

At the regulatory level

National entities must take into account the established guidelines in order to adapt their actions and operational plans on the sale of alcohol to minors and the sale of drinks away from educational centers.

Promote a percentage of the national budget for prevention educational and health actions. Promote the application of the child’s code and adolescents to help high -risk minors. Promote the development of amparo house projects to minors or without reference family whose purpose is the risk of falling into families or situations of fatality. Apply the relevant criminal regulations in the case of people who use or incite children for the sale of alcohol to other children (Vallejos, 2005).

In the media

Promote the dissemination of figures and good prototypes of behavior and family, such as identification and stimulus to the prevention of alcohol consumption and the promotion of profitable styles. Promote the healthy participation of minors in the media, favoring healthy, democratic and leadership practices (Vallejos, 2005).

At the community level

Strengthen neighborhood, communal, youth, sports, religious organizations in prevention work. Promote the formation of actions in society in defense of adolescents at risk of beverage dispensation. Promote the creation of spaces for recreation, use of positive and healthy time and protection of minors in danger (Vallejos, 2005).

In the area of research and evaluation

Execute surveys of risk elements and protection situations in the use and abuse of liquor in our country. Promote polls about the perception of risk and perception of the use and damage of alcoholic beverages in our body and in our development. Perform intervention and prevention programs (Vallejos, 2005).

Conclusions

The experience of having consumed alcohol in the population from 15 years to more is greater than 90%, returning to this group a risk factor, showing some type of physical aggression under the influence of having consumed some alcoholic beverage, based on consumptionof the last year, at 38.1 %, this statement is made with results of 2016 and 2018 of the National Institute of Statistics and Informatics. The presence of alcohol in the body of a teenager can affect their physical, mental, family and social development, preventing their autonomy and creating a possible addiction, added to genetic factors.

recommendations

It will be important to formulate promotional and prevention programs in educational institutions, according to age, academic or personalized year according to the classroom problem, since the absence of information and ignorance of the real effects for adolescents, increases the incidence in alcohol consumption. Carry out activities in promoting the development of adolescents from school and in family space, with the aim of strengthening their self-value and security in their decisions, planning their real goals in the future. Promote investigations that give true indicators about the progress and development of the subject, associating factors such as teenage pregnancy, student performance, psychosomatic diseases, and so on.