Health and Family Life Education (HFLE) is a comprehensive life-skills based program which focuses on the development of the whole resilient person. It enhances the potential of young persons to become productive and contributing adults to society It fosters the development of the knowledge, skills and attitudes that make for healthy family life. It provides opportunities to demonstrate sound health related knowledge, attitudes and practices. It increases the ability to practice responsible decision making about social and sexual behavior. It aims to increase the awareness of children and youths of the fact that the choices they make in everyday life profoundly influence their health and personal development in (King-Cameron, 2017).
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It is important to teach HFLE because it seeks to empower students with the necessary life skills that will improve coping mechanisms and create a conducive environment for social, cognitive and emotional development. The foundations of these life-skills approaches rests on evidence that highlights where students have competencies in the use of effective life-skills. It can prevent or delay their onset of drug use, prevent high risk sexual behavior, facilitate anger management and conflict resolution, improve their academic performance, promote positive social adjustment thus creating a healthy school environment including developing skills for present and future use in a student life.
Life Skills Education focuses on the development of “abilities for adaptive and positive behavior that benefits individuals to deal effectively with the demands and challenges of everyday life”. These benefits can be categorized into three
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