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Gripsholmsskolans hälsoprofil

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Gripsholmsskolans hälsoprofil

The purpose of this Master ́s thesis was to describe what is included in the Gripsholms School’s health profile. Gripsholms School is a Swedish school that has chosen to emphasize health in different ways in the school environment. The origin and development of the health profile was investigated. The teachers' experiences of the health profile are also presented. Gripsholms School is a school that was founded in August 2009. The school is located in Mariefred, which is approximately 60 kilometers southwest of Stockholm. This research can conduce new ways of thinking when it comes to developing school health programs. The research is of a qualitative nature and the research method used is semistructured theme interviews. The pilot study was conducted in January 2017. The interviews were conducted during the period January-March 2017. A total of five teachers with experience of the health profile participated in the research. On the basis of the interviews, main categories were created and from these, subcategories were created. Through out the years, Gripsholmsskolan has developed physical, psychological and social exercises to improve health in the school. All respondents are certain that the health profile has a positive effect on the students and the school. The students are more balanced, the students learn about what is healthy and unhealthy, they may release some energy, they become mentally stronger and are more concentrated. In addition, the social atmosphere is in a positive way affected. Three respondents mention students complaining about heart rate training, because they consider it to be unnecessary and stressful. As a suggestion for development of the health profile, it was mentioned that the guidelines for the staff could be better. In addition, the responsibility for the adventure days is recommended to be divided among several teachers. It was also mentioned in the research that the reasons for Gripsholms School's success with the health profile are the support of the parents, the support of experts, staff co-operation and listening to the students.

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