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Concerned With Mental And Social: The province thus aids many persons in general, special, and mental hospitals, as well as in sanatoria, orphanages, homes, and similar institutions. The department of social welfare and youth is concerned with aid for the aged, blind, needy mothers, and invalids, and with the provision of vocational guidance for young people.
The goal of health education is to help persons live zestful and productive lives in an environment that is as free as possible of threatening or damaging conditions (though it may be full of challenges). As a discipline health education draws content from the physical, biological, medical, and behavioral sciences. Since it is concerned with mental and social, as well as physiological, well-being, health education is a broader field than physical education.
Personality difficulties and emotional conflicts often arise out of fears of physical inadequacy. On the other hand, physical acceleration, among boys, may contribute to better social and psychological adjustment.
Physical acceleration coupled with mental retardation is an especially disturbing form of development. In the traditional school such an individual's mental status places him with children much smaller. Owing to his apparent maturity, he is constantly prodded to achieve beyond his real ability, often with resulting apathy or antisocial conduct.
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