The formation of a healthy lifestyle among juvenile prisoners in imprisonment
The painful social phenomena, characteristic of modern Russia, adversely affect the physical and mental health of persons in prisons with poor health and in need of psychiatric and drug treatment, treatment of tuberculosis, HIV infection (AIDS), hepatitis and other diseases. the formation of a healthy lifestyle is considered in the context of correction of convicts as a powerful pedagogical means of optimizing their entire life and activity. the organization of educational work in this direction helps to improve health in difficult conditions of serving sentences, the prevention of epidemic diseases, and is also a beneficial factor for successful and quick adaptation to new circumstances and the subsequent resocialization of the person at large. A healthy lifestyle of prisoners in prison means typical forms and methods of daily life, which strengthen and improve the reserve capabilities of the human body, thereby ensuring the successful fulfillment of social and professional functions. It is especially important to implement this area of educational work in relation to persons of minor age serving their sentences in an educational colony. the content of educational work with juvenile prisoners on the formation of a healthy lifestyle includes health education, improving the human body, the formation of a mechanism of self-education, etc. the main result of educating a value-based attitude to his health is the activity of a minor convict, his daily behavior aimed at improving and maintaining health, increasing the body’s defenses, hygienic literacy, the implementation of medical recommendations and others. the promotion of a healthy lifestyle in an educational colony is carried out in various forms, such as educational activities on a healthy lifestyle; training in practical methods of self-help and mutual assistance; the appropriate use of free time and leisure activities in the fight against negative habits; introducing other employees and other persons to work in this direction. the organization of educational work on the formation of a healthy lifestyle among juvenile offenders contributes to the development of a value-based attitude towards health, the development of a positive outlook on health problems, the acquisition of knowledge in this area and has a positive effect on the choice of one’s own behavior.