{"id":18545,"date":"2019-07-17T17:00:59","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/?p=18545"},"modified":"2019-07-17T17:00:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-17T17:00:59","slug":"jamaican-ministry-school-psychologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.englishforward.com\/news\/jamaican-ministry-school-psychologists\/","title":{"rendered":"Jamaican Ministry of Education to evaluate school psychologists to provide better help to students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Alando Terrelonge, a state minister for the <strong>Jamaican Ministry of Education, has announced that he will lead a group of government officials and professional psychologists who will evaluate educational psychologists<\/strong> and social workers in the industry.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This action on the side of the Jamaican ministry comes among<strong> a rise in concern about the psychological health of students worldwide.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Some institutions have even decided to introduce <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.englishforums.com\/news\/canine-teaching-assistants-help-fight-stress-among-students\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">canine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> friends in classrooms to reduce stress during school hours, and battle the psychological effects pressure in school has on young minds.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">According to Mr. Terrelonge, <strong>there is a rise in mental health issues among students in Jamaica<\/strong>, and the Ministry of Education has to address this problem.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Jamaican school life<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Government-Issued research has revealed that students in jamaica are increasingly suffering from mental issues related to their school activities. <strong>Depression and anxiety are cited as the most common conditions.<\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">To improve the help students can get from school psychologists, the Ministry of Education has created <strong>a thorough plan to ensure that professional help is available in all public schools in the country.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This announcement came during a meeting between Commonwealth Youth Ministers\u2019 in Marlborough. The Duke of Sussex Prince Harry was also present at the meeting, as he was recently appointed Commonwealth Youth Ambassador by Queen Elizabeth II.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Jamaican government\u2019s decision to pay more attention to the mental health of young adults in the school system is commendable, as this is indeed a global problem. According to recent statistics by the World Health Organisation (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.who.int\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">WHO<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">), <strong>more than eight hundred thousand (800,000) adults commit suicide on a yearly basis.<\/strong> Unfortunately, a significant percentage of these cases involve young adult males, still in their school years.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alando Terrelonge, a state minister for the Jamaican Ministry of Education, has announced that he will lead a group of government officials and professional psychologists who will evaluate educational psychologists and social workers in the industry. 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