“Psychic Education"

Prevention with Children and Sadness Tolerance

Abstract

Through his presentation, the author intends to relate the importance of a certain state of sadness in human beings—contrary to euphoria—to better possibilities for actions aimed at reducing vulnerability among children. In this work, it is assessed that a state of human sadness is necessary for students to acknowledge the possibility of harm and to develop safer behaviors regarding the harmful use of drugs and other potentially addictive behaviors. This preventive approach should begin in childhood and, in order to succeed, depends on the proper training of teachers in prevention-related topics, thereby bringing the concept of prevention closer to that of education itself.