Abstract

FLOREZ ALARCON, Luis  and  HEWITT RAMIREZ, Nohelia. "Actions to Strengthen Social Competence" (ARCOS ): A school health program based on concepts of human self-determination. Psychol. av. discip. [online]. 2013, vol.7, n.2, pp.117-122. ISSN 1900-2386.

Abstract A synthesis of the steps involved in the development of «ARCOS» is presented. ARCOS is a program of school health with the goal of preparing young middle- and high-school students to become a part of the educational and/or job markets after graduating from school. The program has been structured by using workshops as an operational unit, consisting of six to eight sessions involving activities of brief motivational intervention directed to the fulfilling of objectives of universal prevention, selective prevention, or indicated prevention. The workshops are integrated in modules which have been organized for Grades 8 to 10. In its current phase, the aim is the articulation of the operational and evaluation aspects of ARCOS, for the purpose of ecological validation, so that the program can be directed to new phases of evaluation of the efficacy and efficiency of the program. The grounding of the program in cognitively-oriented motivational theories -belonging to the broader category of expectancy-value theories- and particularly in the self-determination theory (SDT), is emphasized.

Keywords : School health; social competence; health promotion; prevention; adolescence.

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