The Department of Social Welfare has organized the sixteenth edition of the School of fathers and mothers of young adolescents on prevention of addictions. The sessions will be taught at the IES. Maria Ibars, on Monday 12, 19 and 26 in January and 2 and 9 in February, from 19 to 21 hours.
Parents with teenage children need to be informed, oriented and advised, while training in educational tactics to prevent and avoid undue, abusive or problematic consumption in their children.
In addition to expanding information on drugs, risk factors and protection in adolescence, the school aims to strengthen parents in educational techniques and skills such as improving communication with children, setting standards and limits or promotion of healthy habits.
Adolescents are more vulnerable and are subject to pressures and influences that will lead them to experiment with consumption at some point, consumption that can become abusive. Therefore, fathers and mothers must have tools to deal with and adequately address these situations and be able to help their children by preventing them from incurring problematic and higher-risk consumption.
The course will be taught by professionals from the Community Prevention Unit on Addictive Behaviors of the Dénia City Council and the Addictive Behaviors Unit of the Department of Health of Dénia and psychopedagogues.
Among the contents that will be addressed are basic concepts about drug addiction, reasons and risks of consumption, family education, how to act in case of detection of consumption and communication skills of parents to their children.
Prior to this edition, Social Welfare, together with the Department of Youth, has organized two sessions of the "Learn to Educate" talk given by Pedro García Aguado and Francisco Castaño Mena. The talk has generated a lot of interest and expectation in the citizenship of Dénia.
This initiative aims to increase awareness, involvement and participation of parents towards family prevention and it is expected that this will translate into a greater influx of participants to the XVI School of fathers and mothers on prevention of addictions.
