Are School Counsellors Required?
Poor academic performance, troubles at home, peer pressure, an inability to fit in, and myriad other problems affect the students of this country. Unfortunately, it often leads them to take drastic and irreversible steps in their lives.
According to NCRB (National Crime Record Bureau), a student takes their life every 42 minutes, which means 34 students die in a day by SUICIDE.
Given these startling figures, is it any wonder why schools ought to employ a full-time counsellor?
The mental health of growing children is at stake here, hence as one of the leading CBSE schools in Barasat, Delhi Public School, Barasat urges you to select a school where there is a full-time school counsellor to take care of children’s mental health.
“Family Problems” is the Chief Cause of Student Suicide
As experts note, academic distress is among the reasons for student suicide. Poor performance in exams leads students to feel depressed and saddened by their personal “failure”. Negative thoughts often weigh down their minds and they believe that they will never be good enough.
Apart from their studies, one Indian Express report states that “family problems” was the leading cause of suicides in India.
Hence, we urge parents to visit our counsellors along with their wards. This facility is kept purely confidential at DPS Barasat.
How Will Our School Counsellor Help?
Most Indian families do not like or encourage children to visit counsellors or seek help for their problems. Hence, the dysfunction is handed down from generation to generation.
However, by seeking help from a trained counsellor, concrete and functional solutions to problems can be found.
The counsellor visit at DPS, Barasat, will be highly confidential and parents do not have to worry about personal problems being exposed. The school has a fully operational Anti-Sexual Harrassment Committee comprising of competent members and teachers with whom the children can openly discuss about any problem bothering them.
Wrapping Up
As one of the leading CBSE schools in Barasat it is our mission to protect our children from external harm as well as self-harm. As a nation, we need to collectively understand what ails our society and how these “family problems” can be solved.
A family is a unit that needs to protect the child and not cause it harm. We feel undue parental expectations and a very competitive worldview are some of the major causes of children’s problems.
