Education & Health - 2005, 23:4
Issue 23:4
Liverpool Sporting Playgrounds Project
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the initial findings from the project to date and discuss baseline measures of physical activity, gender issues and school approaches to developing health promoting playgrounds.
Nicola D. Ridgers, Gareth Stratton, John Curley & Gary White
How parents and teachers can help young people with challenging behaviour (80kb pdf)
Louisa has had a very varied teaching career and is currently teaching, training and writing. Her books, ‘Managing Very Challenging Behaviour’, and ‘Classroom Confidential’ form the basis for this article.
Louisa Leaman
A Snapshot of the Health Related Behaviour of Young People in Further Education Colleges (63kb pdf)
This article looks at data from paper questionnaires and the online survey, collected to Summer 2005, from over 1700 further education students.
Angela Balding
Mental health: Fun on their minds (73kb pdf)
Reproduced from ‘Young People Now’, this article describes a project in Stockport that is helping young people with mental health problems to take part in regular youth activities.
Andy Hillier
School effects on health behaviours
This study involved eight secondary schools in Scotland. Differences in pupils’ smoking were associated with differences in health education and promotion activities, and relationships and communication both within the schools and with parents and professionals from the local community
Marion Henderson, Patrick West and Gillian Raab
The Body Image Project (64kb pdf)
This project won the fpa’s national Pamela Sheridan Award in 2005 and involved primary schools and parents in Derbyshire. The project used drama to explore children’s attitudes to body image and addressed the underpinning issues of self-acceptance and self esteem.
Jane O’Byrne
Cannabis-related beliefs and behaviour among French adolescents: school-based prevention may boomerang
Cannabis users may modify their beliefs about drugs and drug users by drawing a line between ‘hard drugs’ (e.g. heroin) and ‘soft drugs’ (e.g. cannabis) and by claiming that only ‘hard drugs’ are dangerous. This article is adapted from a paper that first appeared in the Health Education Journal.
Patrick Peretti-Watel
Liverpool Sporting Playgrounds Project
The purpose of this article is to provide an overview of the initial findings from the project to date and discuss baseline measures of physical activity, gender issues and school approaches to developing health promoting playgrounds.
Nicola D. Ridgers, Gareth Stratton, John Curley & Gary White
How parents and teachers can help young people with challenging behaviour (80kb pdf)
Louisa has had a very varied teaching career and is currently teaching, training and writing. Her books, ‘Managing Very Challenging Behaviour’, and ‘Classroom Confidential’ form the basis for this article.
Louisa Leaman
A Snapshot of the Health Related Behaviour of Young People in Further Education Colleges (63kb pdf)
This article looks at data from paper questionnaires and the online survey, collected to Summer 2005, from over 1700 further education students.
Angela Balding
Mental health: Fun on their minds (73kb pdf)
Reproduced from ‘Young People Now’, this article describes a project in Stockport that is helping young people with mental health problems to take part in regular youth activities.
Andy Hillier
School effects on health behaviours
This study involved eight secondary schools in Scotland. Differences in pupils’ smoking were associated with differences in health education and promotion activities, and relationships and communication both within the schools and with parents and professionals from the local community
Marion Henderson, Patrick West and Gillian Raab
The Body Image Project (64kb pdf)
This project won the fpa’s national Pamela Sheridan Award in 2005 and involved primary schools and parents in Derbyshire. The project used drama to explore children’s attitudes to body image and addressed the underpinning issues of self-acceptance and self esteem.
Jane O’Byrne
Cannabis-related beliefs and behaviour among French adolescents: school-based prevention may boomerang
Cannabis users may modify their beliefs about drugs and drug users by drawing a line between ‘hard drugs’ (e.g. heroin) and ‘soft drugs’ (e.g. cannabis) and by claiming that only ‘hard drugs’ are dangerous. This article is adapted from a paper that first appeared in the Health Education Journal.
Patrick Peretti-Watel