, when we should be way past that stage. Understanding how mental health skills can be incorporated into our lives has become the more important issue. This isThe initiative to create campuses that provide safe spaces not only for students, but also for teachers and administrators, will always have to come from the top —the school owners and managers.
Different countries are at different stages in how they look at mental health. Some are extremely advanced, where people have learned to rely on medication to address even the slightest of problems. Other societies think resilience is the only thing one needs to overcome mental health problems, and the rest will fall into place.
The initiative to create campuses that provide safe spaces not only for students, but also for teachers and administrators, will always have to come from the top — the school owners and managers. They need to acknowledge the need for such an environment first, and adhere to good mental health practices among their own ranks, before they can be equipped to support and sustain a similar space for their young wards.
A mental health workshop on resilience development for the National Irrigation Administration in 2020. Policies, and the way they are upheld and implemented, are at the heart of every successful program.
The world would be a better place when a check-up has become as normal as going to a physician every year for physical examination or to a dentist to have one’s teeth checked.. No policy will work if the teachers, administrators and guidance staff are themselves unable to support their own mental health. They would have nothing to extend to students who need similar assistance.