This is one of the activities within the Mental Health Prevention Training Project for Students, jointly organized by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung, Germany.
Enhancing understanding, identification and care of mental health for students in Tuyen QuangComing to Tuyen Quang, VNU-USSH psychology experts worked with nearly 350 students and teachers of Hong Thai Secondary School, nearly 700 students and teachers of ATK Son Duong Ethnic High School, Son Duong district.
At the training session, teachers and experts shared real-life situations when communicating with students during puberty, when they are experiencing psychological changes, openly sharing pressures in life and work such as pressure on exam results, responsibility for completing educational targets. Sympathizing with the exhaustion of teachers in the process of completing teaching tasks, experts pointed out specific manifestations of physical, emotional, behavioral, cognitive... so that teachers can proactively improve and take care of their personal mental health.
The training session of Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Hang received positive interaction from teachers at two schools in the mountainous district of Son Duong, Tuyen Quang.
Associate Professor, Dr. Bui Thi Hong Thai - Deputy Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences
Suggesting and sharing with students of two schools in the mountainous district of Son Duong, Tuyen Quang, the experts helped them express their thoughts, feelings, and psychological pressures that students encounter in life and study, such as study pressure, grade pressure, conflicts in social and family relationships.
According to Bui Thu Ha - Class 8B, Hong Thai Secondary School, Son Duong, Tuyen Quang, she and many other students sometimes encounter problems such as stress in studying, pressure in achieving high scores, some students have found solutions such as self-harm, suicidal thoughts or negative reactions to teachers, friends and family. In addition to subject teachers and homeroom teachers, students really need a reliable address of experts in the field of psychology to share mental health issues.
Students at Hong Thai Secondary School, Son Duong, Tuyen Quang share with experts about mental health issues
According to Associate Professor, Dr. Nguyen Thi Minh Hang - Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences, with its position as the leading university in the country in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities, with rich experience in implementing activities of care, support, and psychological counseling for the community, over the past years, the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU has proposed and developed a project on Training to prevent mental health problems for students.
“With this project, we hope to increase understanding and recognition of mental health issues, and enhance skills to deal with mental health issues in students for teachers and parents. Thereby promoting mental health care and measures to prevent mental health issues for students, providing knowledge and skills to access mental health support services for students, especially students in mountainous areas.”
Promote community service activities in many localities across the countryAt the scientific seminar “Community Mental Health Care” organized by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in March 2023, Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Van Hoi highly appreciated the efforts and attention of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities and the Center for Interdisciplinary Research of Social Sciences in the field of mental health care. He affirmed that this also coincides with the attention of the Ministry of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs.
The Deputy Minister shared that mental health is a difficult, broad and multi-disciplinary field. Currently, on average, about 50% of the world's population suffers from various mental health problems (from stress, anxiety, depression, autism, schizophrenia, paranoia, etc.). If not detected and treated promptly, it will cause many consequences in terms of health as well as economic and social aspects. This is also an issue that the Party and State are very concerned about. And there are many policies to strengthen the protection, care and improvement of people's health in the new situation.
Deputy Minister of Labor, War Invalids and Social Affairs Nguyen Van Hoi highly appreciated the efforts and attention of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities in the field of mental health care.
Teachers and students of ATK Son Duong Boarding High School, Son Duong District, Tuyen Quang at a training session on preventing mental health problems.
According to Prof. Dr. Hoang Anh Tuan - Rector of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, in the past time, the school has assigned the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences - a gathering place of experts in psychology, social work, sociology and many other interdisciplinary and interconnected fields - to develop a project on community mental health care activities. Prof. Hoang Anh Tuan emphasized that these activities of the school are not only limited to purely professional activities of teaching and academic research, but all of those results need to be deployed, applied and served for the community.
The project on training on prevention of mental health problems for students was organized by the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU and the Gerda Henkel Stiftung in many secondary and high schools in many provinces and cities across the country, such as Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa, Ha Tinh, Quang Ninh, and Hanoi. Project experts went to many schools in mountainous areas and ethnic minority areas, where it is still difficult to access mental health care services.
In addition, in 2022, the Center for Interdisciplinary Research in Social Sciences of the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, VNU, has implemented a counseling and psychological therapy program for nearly 1,000 students of HOPE School who lost their parents and relatives during the Covid-19 pandemic... This is one of the proofs of VNU-USSH's policy of serving the community.
Center for Interdisciplinary Research in the Social Sciences (CIRSS)is a unit under the University of Social Sciences and Humanities, established in 2020. The center has two basic functions: conducting scientific research in multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary directions.
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