Jharkhand: Government school students to be provided with stress management classes to tackle post-lockdown stress

The government school students in Jharkhand will soon be provided stress management classes to tackle post-lockdown anxiety and address behavioural issues that may aggravate once regular classes resume after several months, officials from the Jharkhand Education Project Council said on Wednesday.

JEPC has already started training around 8,000 teachers in child psychology and ways to tackle restlessness among children with assistance from Central Institute of Psychiatry (CIP), said state in-charge of quality education Arvind Kumar.

“These 8,000 teachers will become master trainers and train other teachers using online mediums. Counselling of students will start before we resume regular classes at schools, so we can put a check on behavioral issues among children once schools reopen,” said Kumar.

However, counselling sessions for students would not be restricted to the ongoing period of offline classes. Stress management lessons for students would become a part of the curriculum once regular classes resume, and every school would try and provide stress management lessons for an hour every day to the students.

Jharkhand: Government school students to be provided with stress management classes to tackle post-lockdown stress

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