Welcome to:

EUROPEAN TRAINING IN EFFECTIVE ADOLESCENT CARE AND HEALTH (EuTEACH) PROGRAMME

• Are you concerned about ‘adolescent health and care’?
• Are you interested in improving aspects of ‘adolescent health and care’ in your community or any community, region or country?
• Do you want to increase your effectiveness in teaching about adolescent health and illness?
• Would you like to know more about the Euteach summer school?
• Would you like to participate in the next EuTEACH summer school (July 6-11 2008, Lausanne, Switzerland) ?

If the answer is ‘yes’ to these questions - then you are in the right place.

In line with the World Health Organisation’s definition, throughout this site, adolescents are defined as young people aged 10 to 19 years. If you think there are adolescents in your community who have health needs that can be better met than they are being met at the moment and if you think that better training of those working with adolescents could help: now is the right time to use EuTEACH.

EuTEACH provides a training curriculum with detailed objectives, practical strategies and resources for trainers/teachers (the two terms are used to mean the same thing throughout this site).It will help you to set up appropriate training sessions for those   involved in adolescent health: clinicians, professionals involved in prevention and health promotion, public health officers and policymakers.

It helps you:

• Identify training needs
• Examine outlines of teaching modules
• Plan sessions
• Run sessions
• Evaluate sessions
• Access to basic references and information on adolescent health & medicine
• Access directly to slides specific to the modules' area

If you need basic information to build your course, you can use an educational site developed by Prof. Lawrence Neinstein in Los Angeles, which provides material in many areas related to adolescent medicine and health. This site was developed for use by health care professionals involved in either the teaching of adolescent health or clinical care of adolescents and young adults.  

• Access to www.usc.edu/adolhealth

If this is the first time you have come into this site and are viewing this curriculum,we suggest that you  look at the overview  of the project by going to   the project’s description (goals, objectives, content)

The EuTEACH program takes an interdisciplinary approach and although it was initially developed to help physicians to teach adolescent health it also contains a large amount of material that can be successfully used by psychologists, social workers, nurses, social scientists, youth workers and others who are either directly involved with adolescent health or who are teaching others about adolescent health and illness.