Participants included approximately 125 school principals, pre-university colleges from 90 educational campuses, including government, auxiliary institutions and private institutions. |Picture source: Getty Images
Together to develop a comprehensive campus-based model for reducing suicide risk and enhancing mental health support systems, Nimhans organized a consultation meeting on students’ mental health on Tuesday.
The consulting meeting, held as part of the multinational National Health Research Priority Project initiated by the Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR), focuses on making young people active collaborators and agents of change to begin a conversation about mental health, and Not fate. Seek help when you are troubled, interact with your peers in distress and facilitate seeking help through appropriate sources.
Training can be conducted through sensitivity and training of stakeholders, including teachers and leaders, including teachers and leaders, and consulting sessions involve training teachers to identify students in distress early and provide and mobilize frontline support and appropriate as needed Recommended. Self-help resources for students to use in both online and offline formats based on needs and preferences are also involved.
Nimhans Director Pratima Murthy highlights the challenges and pressures faced by young people in this era. She stressed the need for collaborative efforts to share insights across campus and learn from each other, reiterating the need for strengths-based approaches and measures to provide mental health support to students in need.
Participants included approximately 125 school principals, pre-university colleges from 90 educational campuses, including government, auxiliary institutions and private institutions, and represent a range of disciplines at the level of higher education, such as arts, science, business, engineering, engineering , Pharmacy, Pharmacy, Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing and Physical Therapy.
Seema Mehrotra, Nimhans’ clinical psychology professor, Nimhans’s lead investigator for the project, said the project team involved experts in the Prime Minister’s mental health agency supporting the implementation and worked with the state’s education department and health. Officials from these departments served as node officials for the project and participated in the meeting.
A series of moderating discussions were conducted at the school, PU and university levels to identify barriers, potential solutions and driving forces to provide a scalable and sustainable model for students’ mental health.
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