Adolescence Education Program (AEP)

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1. Adolescence
Education Program
Childhood and Growing up
Guided by:
Dr. Amit Singh
SOE, CUH
Presented by:
Km Keerti Singh
B.Ed, 1
st
semester
Roll no. 200142

2. What is AEP?
AEP was launched by the MHRD in collaboration with national AIDS control organization (NACO),
GOI in 2005 as a follow up of the decisions taken in an Inter- ministerial meeting held in October
2004.
Adolescence Education is an intervention to impart accurate and adequate knowledge about
the process of grouping up with a focus on reproductive and sexual health in its biological,
psychological and socio-cultural dimensions emotional health and coping with life skills.
Global and Indian experiences have shown that educational interventions focused on life skills
development have proven very effective in empowering adolescents to manage their ARSH
issues and concerns, including avoidance of risky behaviors.

3. What is AEP?
It is already implemented in schools. Earlier it was
known as SAEP (School AIDS Education Programme)
and it was limited to spreading awareness about
HIV/AIDS & that too for only one day (December 01)
every year. Now it has been renamed as Adolescent
Education Programme (AEP) and it now addresses
all the necessary issues that adolescents face
including HIV/AIDS.

4. The programme
16 hours in one academic session can be taken up as
per the convenience of teachers & students. One
male teacher of the school will be an AEP educator
for the boys. One female teacher of the school will
be an AEP educator for the girls. Separate
counselling sessions for boys and girls.

5. The Programme
16 hours in one academic session does not mean to
have a period adjusted in the time table. Generally
teachers have to solve many problems and doubts of
their students. teachers can talk to the students for
just 5 – 10 minutes in one sitting. Teachers have to
keep in mind that now this is not a general counselling
that they provide to their students but a specialized
counselling for which teachers have been trained.

6. According to WHO, who are Adolescence?
●10-19 years of age attributes-
➔Rapid physical, psychological, cognitive and behavioral changes and developments
including ,
➔Urge to experiment,
➔Attainment of sexual maturity,
➔Development of adult identity, and
➔Transition from socio -economic dependence to relative independence.

7. Contd..
●Adolescents - 10 to 19 years
●Youth – 15 to 24 years
●Youth people – 10 to 24 years
Growth phases:
●Early adolescence – 10 to 13 years
●Mid adolescence – 14 to 16 years
●Late adolescence – 17 to 19 years.

8. Why focus on Adolescents?
●Large human resource (22% population)
● Caring, supportive environment will promote optimum
development – physical, emotional, mental. Their behaviour
has impact on National Health Indicators like maternal and
infant mortality
●Adolescents are vulnerable to STIs, HIV/AIDS, sexual abuse In
India 35% of reported AIDS cases are below 25 years of age
group (National AIDS Control Organization) Health of girls has
inter-generational effect.

9. Adolescence concerns:
➔Growing up concerns,
➔Developing an identity,
➔Idealism Vs Realism,
➔Physical Appearance,
➔Building relationships, and
➔ Resisting peer pressure.

10. 1.Growing up concern
●Changes in hormonal secretions causes Acne (Pimples on
face).
●Many adolescents are unduly worried about this.
●Changes in reproductive system are a cause of worry as
parents and teachers do not talk about this openly.
●They lack access to information/education and services
about reproductive health and safe sexual behavior.

11. 2.Developing an Identity
● An adolescent wants to develop his / her identity as
an individual.
●He or She feels confused sometimes that whether
he or she is a child or an adult (Because of different
behaviour of parents, teachers and relatives at
different times)

12. 3. Physical appearance
●An adolescent is very much concerned about
physical appearance.
●No comments should be given about their being tall
& lean, about their being shorter as compared to
others of their class, their skin complexion, wearing
of spectacles etc. as it may develop inferiority
complex in them.

13. 4. Realism vs Idealism
●An adolescent begins to understand the social fabric of his surroundings.
●He / She starts judging that whatever moral values have been taught to him as a child
are not practically being followed by his elders.
●He / She is depressed by corruption, inequality and other social evils like dowry. Proper
guidance is needed at this time.
●Otherwise the adolescents can be mislead by wrong people.

14. 5. Building relationships
●An adolescent has to
be guided properly so
as he / she can
choose “good”
friends.

15. 6. Resisting peer pressure
● Adolescents are under pressure from their friends circle to do many wrong things which
may allure them.
●An adolescent needs to be taught ‘How to say NO?” This is very essential for protecting
them against drug abuse.

16. Major activity component

●Advocacy
●Training
●National level
●State level

17. Aims and Objectives of AEP
●To provide necessary sex education to adolescents.
➔This will aim at clearing the myths about various changes in
their bodies during development.
➔This will improve Maternal and Infant health when these
adolescents grow up and build their families.
➔This has to be done in such a way that it does not look
obscene and nobody objects to it.

18. Contd...
● To spread awareness about HIV / AIDS.
➔ Celebrate world AIDS day on December 01 every year in
schools.
➔This programme has achieved marvelous success in
Punjab as the new AIDS cases have reduced to a great
extent.
➔AIDS awareness has to be continued as the severely
affected age group by HIV / AIDS is still 15 – 24 years.

19. Contd...
● To spread awareness about ill effects of Drug abuse.
➔ They need to be taught to say ‘NO’ to their peers who use
drugs and ask them to try.
➔They have to be told about the connection between HIV/AIDS
and injectable drugs.
➔ Adolescents are sometimes under stress. This is the time
when they can enter the drug network.
➔They should be motivated to talk about their problems with
their teacher so that the teacher can help them manage their
stress.

20. Contd..
●Upbringing Problems
➔Usually girls are brought up in a traditional set up &
protected.
➔Boys are brought up in a more open set up and are
allowed to do anything in the name of manhood.
➔This results in social problems of eve teasing, drug
abuse in boys, rash drivers on roads, accidents etc.
➔AEP aims at making the boys humble, sensible and
responsible.

21. Contd...
●Social media
➔General awareness about genuine use of
mobile phones has to be provided.
➔Awareness about not sharing their
photographs on social networks like
facebook has to be provided.

22. Contd…
● Choice of Vocation
➔This programme aims at providing help to
adolescents about the choice of their careers.
➔Sometimes they are under extreme pressure from
parents / relatives to take up a particular career
path which they do not like.
➔Parents should also be involved in this process
and the student should be helped to take up the
career path according to his / her choice.

23. Contd..
●Generally the adolescents are very patriotic.
➔They are often depressed about corruption etc. in the
system.
➔They are very vulnerable to be exploited by anti - social &
anti - national forces.
➔ We have to take care of this aspect by clearing their
doubts if any.

24. Contd..
● To provide accurate age appropriate
information to school going children between
age of 14-19 on adolescence and growing up.
●To reinforce existing positive behavior and
instill life skills that enable young people to
protect themselves

25. Conclusion
The ultimate aim is to help our
adolescents to transform into responsible,
sensible, stress free and good human
beings & good citizens.

26. BIBLIOGRAPHY
●Adolescence education program-
Manifest IAS
●Adolescence Education Program Life
Skills Development- STATE Health
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●https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/tloy
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●https://www.slideshare.net/mobile/caes
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