2. E-Training Toolkit

The e-training toolkit has been built starting from the ultimate findings collected within the HandS transnational research achieved during Activity 1. It presents an articulate structure of contents, findings and aggregated data related to the project topic, such as:

• Special vulnerability of adolescents.
• Emotional balance in teenagers.
• Theoretical and epidemiological bases of the phenomenon of suicide risk in adolescents.
• Characteristics of personality traits such as impulsiveness, aggressiveness, and poor coping with frustration.
• Symptomatic behaviors, such as self-injuries, risky, disruptive and challenging behaviors.
• Traits of antisocial relationships.
• How to detect and prevent suicidal risk in adolescents.
• How to deal with cases of suicidal ideation associated with imitative behaviors such as the Werther effect.
• How to encourage protective behaviors such as the Papageno effect.
• Coping suicide risk in secondary schools: good practices for interprofessional teams.
• Example stories.
• Intervention programs with educational strategies: exercises and activities to be used during activities with students at school (also downloadable and printable materials in PDF format).

The toolkit has been built in HTML5 language, in compliance with SCORM 2004 standard (to be reusable and adaptable in an easy way on different Content Management Systems – CMS – and e-platforms). The collaborative work on the e-training toolkit has been conducted through the use of Information and Communication Technology (green practices) in English. The final product of this work has been then translated in Spanish and ltalian. It is now published in three languages (follow the link below). 

HOW THE E-TRAINING TOOLKIT IS GOING TO HELP TO REACH THE PROJECT OBJECTIVES?

The implementation of the e-training toolkit represents the core production of the HandS project and one of its main objectives. The lack of multi-language, science-based and updated training and teaching/learning materials for schools on the project topic is striking. Indeed, besides research findings and data hardly translatable in actual strategies in the school contexts, only a massive number of informative material exists, but with dissemination aims and light/popular character. On the contrary, it is of interest to develop support resources for adolescents at school, from which they receive immediate attention, and which they may use in situations of anguish, urgency and/or loneliness, resources in which they feel cared without being judged or questioned.

The Hands toolkit has been built starting from all information collected within the transnational desk research (Activity 1), in an enjoyable and friendly graphic layout, to fulfil two different objectives:

1. to represent the basis for the training program addressed to a first group of 30 among schoolteachers, school psychologists and other care professionals (see Activity 3);
2. to be used as an educational/support toolkit during the delivering of educational activities at school (see Activity 4) thanks to exercises and activities contained in it (also in form of downloadable and printable materials in PDF format).