Subjective well-being, National well-being, Croatia, EU, NATO,

The paper examines the differences and similarities in the assessments of verbotonal teachers and speech and language pathologists regarding the activities, educational habits, and progress of children with speech and language disorders and hearing impairments who are enrolled in the program of the elementary school at SUVAG Polyclinic. These assessments were compared with perceived social support reported by students’ parents. The research was conducted at the SUVAG Polyclinic Elementary School, Zagreb in 2019. Three groups of participants took part in the research: parents of children with speech and language disorders and hearing impairment, verbotonal teachers and SLPs of those children. The results of the research showed that there is a significant degree of harmonization in the assessment of the child’s activity and educational habits and progress by verbotonal teachers and SLPs. Parents’ reports regarding received social support differ from the opinion of the experts.

Unatrag dva desetljeća sve više raste interes za korištenje terapijskih pasa u obrazovnom okruženju, posebice u radu s djecom s teškoćama u razvoju (Brelsford i sur., 2017). Osnovni cilj istraživanja učinka terapijskih pasa u radu s djecom je prepoznavanje dobrobiti koju taj rad ima za mentalno zdravlje djece, poboljšanje komunikacijskih vještina te njihovu motivaciju za sudjelovanje u rehabilitacijskim i obrazovnim aktivnostima. Iako sve veći broj istraživanja navodi sve češće uključivanje terapijskih pasa u obrazovnom okruženju, praksa se još uvijek ne proučava sustavno (Gee i sur., 2015). Tijekom suočavanja s pandemijom COVID-a-19 te posljedicama potresa u gradu Zagrebu, osim zatvaranja škola, socijalne izolacije, smanjene dostupnosti pojedinih zdravstvenih usluga, pa tako i rehabilitacije djece s teškoćama u razvoju, susreli smo se, očekivano, i s pogoršanjem mentalnog zdravlja djece. Poliklinika za rehabilitaciju slušanja i govora SUVAG u Zagrebu, Ulica kneza Ljudevita Posavskog 10 (u nastavku teksta Poliklinika SUVAG), u kojoj se rehabilitiraju i školuju djeca s oštećenjem sluha i poremećajima govora i jezika, tijekom 2020. i 2021. godine u svom je radu upotrebljavala i tri terapijska psa koja su odigrala značajnu ulogu kao motivatori djece u obrazovnim i rehabilitacijskim aktivnostima te zaštiti mentalnog zdravlja tijekom pandemije. Ključne riječi: terapijski pas, pandemija COVID-a-19, djeca s teškoćama u razvoju, mentalno zdravlje, obrazovanje

This study examines the extent to which a comprehensive, school-based, health-education programme, based on lectures and active student participation in discussions and related project activities, can produce desirable changes in adolescents' behaviour. A quasi-experimental design, with pre-and post-intervention testing, was used in a group of adolescents (N = 858). Our results show that the conducted programme had modest effects. There was no difference between the pre-and post-intervention reports of time spent on screen-based activities and physical exercise, and the time spent doing physical activities was not correlated with the time they spent on sedentary activities. In this paper, we discuss various possible reasons for the ineffectiveness of such programmes in producing desired behavioural changes in young adolescents.