Delhi Education Minister Atishi has directed the Directorate of Education to draft a blueprint for mental health and guidance for student’s studying in government schools.
It is to be noted that in the pilot phase conducted across 20 schools of the Delhi government, over 20,000 children received counselling in the past year. Educational and Vocational Guidance Counsellors (EVGC) and school psychologists provided support to help students maintain their mental health. Additionally, group sessions and social-emotional learning taught students how to manage stress and stay emotionally healthy.
To find out the pilot phase experiences and to improve the mental-emotional well-being of every child studying in Delhi government schools through this project, Education Minister Atishi discussed with the school psychologists and EVGC counsellors posted in these clinics and took their feedback.
Atishi mentioned that, after the success of the pilot phase, counselling of students will be done in all the schools of the Delhi government so that their mental health needs can be understood, and they can be helped. In this regard, Education Minister Atishi directed the officials of the department to prepare a blueprint.
During the discussion, school psychologists shared with the Education Minister how timely counselling can help meet the mental health needs of students and connect them back to their studies. They said that, from an early age, children are stressed for various reasons, which has a bad effect on their mental health. But there is not much awareness about mental health. This is the reason that this problem increases due to not getting timely treatment. But in schools, we are identifying this problem in children through teachers and counselling and are solving it.
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