Evaluation on the Effectiveness of Teacher Training for Drug Abuse Prevention

随着青少年吸烟、酗酒和滥用药物问题日益严重，人们对在学校进行有效预防教育的期望也越来越高。由于传统的学校健康教育主要侧重于知识的获取，从行为改变的角度来看效果不佳。然而，最近在日本，以行为科学的健全理论为基础的预防吸烟、酗酒和滥用药物的方案和教材已经开发出来并得到广泛应用。但是，大多数教师缺乏足够的能力来正确地利用这些程序和教材，因此在现实中无法获得预期的效果。由于这个原因，为了传播预防吸烟、酗酒和滥用药物的教育项目，这对行为改变是有效的，对教师的培训被认为起着非常重要的作用。在本研究中，考虑到以讲座为主的传统单向交流式培训的局限性，笔者策划并开展了参与式培训，并对研讨班的短期效果进行了评估。总结两年讲习班的结果表明，大多数参与者对参与式讲习班的评价是肯定的，对开展预防吸烟、饮酒和吸毒教育有信心的人的比例从参加前的25%增加到参加后的69%。此外，由于教师们更多地认为讲习班易于理解、有用和令人愉快，他们往往有信心就预防吸烟、饮酒和吸毒问题提供指导。从这些结果得出的结论是，参与式讲习班有效地提高了参与者对开展防止吸烟、饮酒和滥用药物的预防教育的信心，并鼓励了他们解决这一问题的动机。少

Along with the increasing seriousness of smoking, alcohol drinking and drug abuse among juveniles, expectations are increasing for effective preventive education in schools. Since conventional school health education was mainly focused on the acquirement of knowledge, it was not effective from the viewpoint of behavioral change. However, recently in Japan, programs and teaching materials for the prevention of smoking, alcohol drinking and drug abuse based on the sound theory of behavior sciences have been developed and widely used. But, most teachers are lacking in sufficient ability to properly utilize these programs and teaching materials, so they cannot obtain expected results in reality. For this reason, for distributing the preventive education programs against smoking, alcohol drinking and drug abuse, which is effective for behavioral change, training for teachers is considered to play a very important role.In this research, in consideration of the limitations of conventional one … More -way communication type training mainly based on lecture, the authors planned and conducted participation type workshop and evaluated the short-term effects of the workshops. Summarized results of workshops for two years showed that most participants evaluated the participation type workshop affirmatively, and the ratio of persons who were confident in conducting the prevention education against smoking, alcohol drinking and drug abuse increased from 25% before participation to 69% after participation. In addition, as teachers more felt that the workshop was easy to understand, useful and enjoyable, they tended to be confident in conducting guidance on the prevention of smoking, alcohol drinking and drug abuse. From these results, it has been concluded that the participation type workshop is effective for increasing confidence of participants in conducting the preventive education against smoking, alcohol drinking and drug abuse and for encouraging their motivation to tackle this problem. Less