Educating, Accessing and Socialising
The Youth
Educating, Assessing and Socialising the Youth (EASY)
A training programme for guidance counsellors
Justification for the EASY Programme
Young men, 12 to 17 years-old, do not do as well as their female
counterparts in academics and there is also a high drop-out rate.
This is a major concern for the Jamaican society as these delinquent
males will be unqualified, unskilled and unemployed adults.
The picture for girls is a little different in its outward manifestation,
but is driven by similar forces; activities are sexual in nature.
The aim is to resocialise our adolescents with problems to become
functional in a changing environment. It is, therefore, critical
if we are to find preventative measures and effective curative action
to eliminate the problem.
Intervention strategy: Helping the individuals
· Quantitative as well as qualitative data collection.
· Individual’s background is the first factor to be
considered from a socio-cultural point of view.
· Academic abilities of the student must also be assessed.
The test to be employed includes the following:
· The SRA Reading and Arithemetic Indexes (RAI)
· The JobBank Personality Profile
· The Bar - On Personality Profile
· The Adolescent Psychopathology Scale - Short form (APS-SF)
Procedural steps
· Selling the programme to the principals and guidance counsellors
· Criteria for selection
· Selling the programme to parents/caregivers
· Contracting with parents and participants
· Interpreting the assestments
· Finetuning intervention strategies
· Sensitisation of teachers
· Delivering pilot programme
· Developing support group for parents and caregivers
· Evaluating the pilot programme.
· Training guidance counsellors to expand programme.
The intervention processes
A critical component of the rehabilitation will involve anger management.
The following approaches will be utilised:
· Universal spiritual principles
· Relaxation techniques
· Cognitive restructuring
· Problem-solving techniques
· Communication skills
· The use of humour
· Strategies for coping with disappointments
· Personal assignments
· Modelling
· Roleplay
· Teamwork
· Self and peer evaluation
Objectives:
To teach and promote new behaviour to effect lasting change of
the inappropriate and unproductive thought and behaviour patterns
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