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Transparent school is a term for a targeted addiction prevention that starts in the school environment in order to arm adolescents at an early stage against the dangers of addictive substance consumption. It consists of two parts:

  1. Survey of students and teachers: This results in school, grade and class profiles. Based on this information, targeted prevention is now possible.
  2. Educational measures that are tailored to the situation at hand.

concept

The project consists of two components that build on one another and is voluntary . First of all, an analysis of the current situation is carried out using a questionnaire among teachers and students. This is followed by the second part, namely the targeted change tailored to the specific situation (intervention). With repeated implementation, a self-regulating and optimizing control cycle can form, from which an early warning system can develop in the case of long-term implementation . Current developments can be recognized and behavior that is hazardous to health can be acted upon early on. The repeated implementation evaluates the measures and ensures their sustainability.

collaboration

In particular, through the cooperation of students, parents and teachers with regional addiction prevention workers, targeted prevention can take place that can make a significant contribution to keeping our children healthy, with the focus on the school setting . Assistance and advice from schools is offered by B. the KOSS (= Coordination Office for School Addiction Prevention), which is staffed with teachers and can therefore work optimally in schools. The Statistical Office of the State Office for Addiction Issues Schleswig-Holstein (LSSH) is responsible for the survey .

Prevention

The actual prevention work intended with the project begins within the information phase , namely when conclusions are drawn beyond the pure discussion of the results . Such consequences can be communicative or structural. The communicative activities include all educational offers. To this end, a number of suggestions are made in the modular offer in the context of the "Transparent School". The focus of the topics will change according to the situation of the individual classes and years. In addition to engaging with the entire class, it can make sense to offer voluntary discussions (for individual students) outside of the classroom.

Components

Components of this overall concept are an anonymous scientific survey instrument, qualification offers for teachers and parents, teaching modules with systematic thematic focuses and a comprehensive network of trained specialists (multipliers) who are also available to the schools for project days , information events and parents' evenings. These multipliers qualify e.g. B. through advanced training for addiction prevention staff at the LSSH.

Development and dissemination

The basic concept of the Transparent School was developed and tested in 1993 by the then Central Office for Addiction Prevention in cooperation with the Coordination Office for School Addiction Prevention (KOSS) and the Ratzeburg alcohol and drug advice service . The AOK Schleswig-Holstein supported the project financially . Due to structural changes, the "Transparent School" project is now jointly sponsored by the State Office for Addiction Issues Schleswig-Holstein (LSSH) and the Coordination Office for School Addiction Prevention (KOSS). The Glass School has also been used in Brandenburg, Saxony and Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania since 1998 . Furthermore, European cooperation has developed. In addition to various EU-wide research projects, the Transparent School has established itself in South Tyrol.

effectiveness

In an EU research project, the Transparent School was scientifically evaluated by the Center for Interdisciplinary Addiction Research (ISD) and its effectiveness was confirmed, especially for the module “initiated abstinence - learning through renunciation” . Other prevention modules of this project have also been empirically evaluated, but not as extensive as the one mentioned above. In principle, a valid evaluation is sought for all components.

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Individual proof

  1. ↑ see Raschke, Peter / Kalke, Jens: Learning through renunciation. Concept and effects of the addiction prevention teaching program "Transparent School" , Schneider Verlag Hohengehren: Baltmannsweiler 2002