What Are the Potential Ways to Solve the Issue of Professionalization of Risk Behaviour Prevention in School Environment?

Abstract

The submitted article addresses the issue of professionalization of prevention in school environment as a key topic looked into by the disciplines whose force field is risk behaviour prevention. It addresses the topic from the perspective of current studies, making comparison with experience from the Slovak environment and with challenges set by so called General Educational Programs. A self-standing challenge for the improvement of theory and practice consists in the education of the teachers dealing with prevention. Finally, the article sets the challenges to be addressed with respect to professionalization of prevention in school environment in relation to the actual teachers implementing the prevention, to legislative stipulation of prevention (including a potential profession of social educator), but also to coordination of prevention with other entities.