Depression, anxiety and stress as major
psychological issues affecting students, the urgent need for counseling in
schools for teachers and students was outlined at session in Saint Soldier
Public School, Pratap Nagar on Friday, May 4th 2018. Highlighting the mounting pressure faced by
students, the session was to train teachers better to tackle these issues,
taken by Mr. Ranjeet Rajput, Director of Brainmita counseling academy. The
session was interactive and interesting.
Our Respected Principal Ma’am Aruna Suresh, introduced the
counselor, and the topic of the session the main concern was parent, teachers
should become facilitators, towards dealing with depression, anxiety and stress
among school students. The discussion was also based on that teachers should
know how to handle the adolescent children and students should know how to cope
with the stress.
As the incidents are happening on a regular basis,
taking them as an eye-opener the teachers should devise a holistic plan to sort
out this problem. The focus was also on the role of teachers in
promoting the social emotional health of students at risk, an innovative
counseling intervention with in schools, context that focuses on enabling them,
being more resilient in order to better deal with case of ‘difficult’
students.