Implementation of Sexual and Reproductive Health Programs for Adolescents
Training
Due to the complexity and sensitivity of providing SRH care to adolescents, health providers must be trained not only to provide correct and balanced information about the use of contraceptives and the correct use of condoms, but also about healthy sexuality, avoiding stigmas, and prejudices. The available training resources are manuals and self-learning modules on how to work better with adolescents given their biological development, cultural context, and vulnerabilities. The materials follow a rights-based approach and provide awareness training for providers on issues of gender, equality, interculturality, and diversity.
In addition, we offer the tools to carry out and facilitate educational activities that, through participation, empowerment, and the strengthening of relationships between peers, promoting adolescents to make responsible decisions about their sexuality. At the end of the module there are abbreviated manuals to be used in medical consultations that have exercises to evaluate risks in the social, mental, and SRH dimensions.
Documents
This document offers, therefore, the conceptual and practical guidelines that will allow health personnel to implement SSR counseling for adolescents, including basic principles in the care of counseling, intervention techniques, as well as the approach in specific cases. of risk behaviors in SSR.
This document presents self-learning modules to develop competencies by type of provider in Costa Rica. This type of learning requires a methodology based on the competency approach from the constructivist perspective, for which a didactic proposal was developed consisting of four self-learning modules, namely: 1. The attention of adolescents: challenge for health services; 2. Sexuality and pregnancy in adolescence: a comprehensive approach that facilitates comprehensive care from health services; 3. Counseling in sexual health and reproductive health: accompanying adolescents in situations of risk; 4. Local health management to care for the adolescent population, in the modality of friendly services.
This module is part of a series of self-learning modules aimed at training health personnel working with the adolescent population, in order to acquire the basic skills and attitudes required to enable the achievement of the objectives set out above.
With this module of self-learning we intend to contribute with this reflection, which will later allow you to approach the adolescents in an accurate way, always trying to make their professional or technical experience and knowledge become a tool for them and they make informed decisions and timely for their life projects.
This self-learning module is a complementary tool of the Sexual Health and Reproductive Health Counseling Manual. This module is specifically about the counseling of adolescents in situations of risk.
The document is part of a series of modules and a component to strengthen the services of comprehensive care in sexual health and reproductive health for adolescents. This self-learning module is aimed at primary care technicians, assistants or medical record technicians, nursing assistants, pharmacy technicians and professionals in medicine, nursing and pharmacy. It describes step by step how to manage and implement the technical manual and procedures for the comprehensive care of adolescents with emphasis on sexual health and reproductive health, in a practical and adapted to the level of training and availability of time of the members of a Basic Team of Integral Health Care (EBAIS), so that each team can offer health services beyond the traditional medical consultation and be considered more friendly by the adolescent population.
This manual seeks, therefore, to guide the provision of health services in a standardized manner, but sufficiently flexible to adapt it to the different local realities, and to the particular conditions and context of each adolescent. The actions and activities promoted are based on international and national evidence, as well as on the experience of the health personnel consulted in serving this population. This document has two parts, the first of which includes the technical manual, in which the conceptual and technical framework that should support the operational task of comprehensive health care for adolescents, with emphasis on SRH, is made explicit. This document was created for the context of Costa Rica. In the second part of the document, the procedures that describe the specific actions of attention set out in the technical manual are presented, without being exclusive of all the additional interventions required in each case.
This manual is complementing the Technical and Procedures Manual, this document is elaborated whose purpose is to offer the conceptual and practical orientations that will allow the health personnel to implement the Complementary Group Activity that every adolescent who attends the health services should receive, part of the basic package of care together with the individual consultation, as well as developing other optional group activities, of an educational-preventive nature, to address topics in SSR that can not be deepened in the complementary group activity or in the individual consultation, constituting a support for the fulfillment of the proposed objectives. In this way, the Manual of Group Activities with emphasis on sexual health and reproductive health for adolescents, offers a guide to carry out activities of an educational nature, which, through participation, empowerment and the strengthening of relationships between peers, promote in adolescents and responsible decision making about their sexuality, as a way to protect their health.