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Teachers to be trained on psychological health
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-03-06 15:12 Beijing has listed "psychological health of
teachers and students" a required course for local primary and high school
teachers, a local education official said Thursday.
The course should
enable them to effectively handle psychological problems experienced either by
their students or themselves.
The official with the Beijing Municipal
Education Committee said local primary and high school teachers will be trained
in the basic theories and knowledge of psychology, causes and symptoms of
psychological problems and methods on how to ease psychological pressure on
students.
The move also aims to improve psychological health of teachers
themselves, according to the official.
According to a survey of 2,292
teachers from 168 primary and high schools in 14 cities in northeast China's
Liaoning Province, conducted by the State Task Team for Mental Health Education
of Primary and High School Students, 51.23 percent of those surveyed were
diagnosed with psychological problems. Of these 32.18 percent with "low-grade
psychological obstruction," 16.56 percent with " psychological obstruction of
moderately depth," and 2.49 percent with "mental illness."
According to a
survey f more than 500 primary and high school teachers in Beijing, close to 60
percent of those surveyed feel more "upset" than "joyful" about teaching and 70
percent of the respondents said that they often get irritable, restless and "
heavy-hearted."
Currently, all primary and high schools in Beijing have
at least one part-time or full-time counselor However, teachers with a
bachelor's degree of psychology or above only take up less than 10 percent.
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