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Puppet play as interactive approach in drug abuse prevention

The national strategies of drug abuse prevention across Europe have come to recognise that the drugs abuse problem presents a complex set of issues for which there is no simple solution. There is a considerable increase in investment in prevention, treatment and harm-reduction activities and increased focus in supply reduction. School’s settings are the focus of most attempts to implement effective prevention programmes. Prevention in schools does not focus on drugs alone but also include personal and social skills, often with family involvement and involvement of local community. The school is an ideal setting for drug abuse prevention and development of active and responsible attitudes against drug abuse. Successful school drug-prevention programmes include personal skills training ( decision-making, coping, goal-setting), social skills training ( assertiveness, resisting peer pressure ), drug education (knowledge about drugs and the consequences of taking them) and developing attitudes (especially correcting misconceptions about peer group drug use). Effective drug education programmes incorporates a range of activities which provide students with relevant factual information, the opportunity to consider their attitudes and values and the values of others. For effective delivery of prevention programmes interactive teaching is better than didactic teaching alone. In that sense the puppet play could be used as an interactive technique. Puppets help to engage actively the students in communicating their emotions, opinions, and experiences, and also to learn about the drug abuse problem. By the means of puppetry and dramatic play the students may learn about drugs and the consequences of taking them.

drug abuse prevention; prevention programme; interactive approach; puppet play.

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