Students in distress: How can pressures be eased so they don’t feel ‘boxed in’?

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Education Minister Chan Chun Sing outlined in Parliament a plan to ramp up counsellors in schools. But there are a few tricky things to overcome, say guests on this week’s Heart of the Matter podcast.

and spoke about the pressures young people face and how schools can support those facing mental health challenges.

This is especially so for teenagers under 18. If they choose to seek help outside the school system – they need parental consent. On Jul 26, Ms Sun had posted on her Facebook page an account of her struggle in junior college where she didn’t fit in and thought of “finally some rest”. Having been through that, she wrote about how as a parent, she would never place academics above her daughter’s well-being.

“That's why I think that it is so important for all of us as a society to try our very best to create those messages of hope for young people. And you never know, the young person may watch that video. And that might be the source of strength to get that young person through,” she said.DEPLOYMENT OF MORE TEACHER-COUNSELLORS COME WITH CHALLENGES

“I will definitely seek a second or third opinion … and gather feedback from whether it’s something he wants to do, knowing it’s very hard for him to make a firm decision right ,” Mr Tan, who was on the same podcast, said. But putting aside help avenues, how much further would MOE push on reducing stress off students? In his statement, Mr Chan announced the dropping of Common Last Topics to ease the pressure on students taking major exams this year in view of how disruptive COVID-19 has been.

 

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