Browsing by Author "Reece-Peters, Cecilia"

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    From traditional school health to the emerging Multi-Agency Health and Family Life Education Programme - The transference of an identity crisis created at the macro level
    (School of Education, UWI, St. Augustine, 2008) Reece-Peters, Cecilia
    The thesis that informs this report is an examination of the current school-based Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) programme in Grenada. In keeping with education reforms, the Caribbean region has been experiencing a gradual moving away, since the 1970s, from the traditional School Health Education programme to a more comprehensive approach. There have been two sets of significant shifts in Grenada's traditional School Health Education to more comprehensive approaches between 1988 and 1997. This report, which embodies the subsection of the thesis dealing with participants' experiences of the new School Health curriculum, identifies and discusses a form of identity crisis that seems to have been created at the time of the development of the Family Life Education (FLE) curriculum at the macro level, and has subsequently been transferred to the micro level in the shift from traditional School Health Education to the emerging HFLE. The paper looks particularly at how participants associate FLE with the teaching of sex education and how that perception has affected the current School Health Education-essentially a case of guilt by association
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    Teachers' issues: A case for mental health [PowerPoint presentation]
    (2013-06-24) Reece-Peters, Cecilia
    Mental health has been described as "a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own abilities, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make a contribution to his or her community." In this positive sense, mental health is the foundation for individual well-being and the effective functioning of a community (WHO, 2010). Despite the fact that the concept of mental health takes everyone into consideration, within the context of schooling in the Caribbean, there seems to be a perception that any attempt at mental health interventions should be exclusively for the student population. Counselling programmes at primary schools, for example, target students while members of staff are given little or no consideration. This paper presents the findings and analysis of the mental health issues identified by two cohorts of third-year in-service primary school teachers. in Trinidad and Tobago. The issues described by the teachers are considered as "mental health symptoms." Recommendations are made for Caribbean primary school health interventions to develop and implement an assessment and management approach to teachers' mental health