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Adolescent care programme

By Our Staff Reporter

KOCHI, JULY 31. The Indian Academy of Paediatrics, in association with Rotary Clubs, will organise a workshop on adolescent care on the occasion of `Teenage Day' on Sunday. The programme will focus on adolescent behavioural patterns with a view to educating schoolteachers and parents on the pertinent issues.

Announcing this at a press conference here today, Aboobacker, representative of the organisers, said mood changes, hostility to parents and authority, interest in opposite sex, attention seeking and risk taking are part of adolescent behaviour. Sometimes, elders fail to respect the inevitable attitudes of adolescents. This might lead to occasional trouble. During adolescence, intelligence is at its peak and suppressing the energies would prevent the adolescents from achieving true potential.

He said the academy would launch a family life education programme for adolescents so as to enable them to develop communication skills and confidence. Life skills, such as assertiveness, quite often helps children resist peer pressure to smoke, drink, etc. The breast-feeding week celebrations would also be inaugurated on the occasion, he said. K. C. George, K. Mohandas and T. V. Ravi were among those present at the press meet.

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