Mental health refers to cognitive, behavioral, and emotional well-being. It is all about how people think, feel, and behave.
Our facilitator Dr. Pramila Panda, PGT, Physics, attended an online Capacity Building Programme on "Promoting Mental Health" conducted by CBSE, Centre of Excellence, Chennai, on 23rd July' 2021.
Mental health plays a vital role in this pandemic, when we are bound with the four walls with no physical activity.
The resource person Ms. Sunita Rao, Principal, DPS, Nacharam threw light on practices to promote mental well being in students.
She advised the participants to create Health Integration in schools and to train the teachers to understand the mental health of the students.
She shared following benefits of health integration in school.
- prevents onset of mental health problem
- promotes positive mindset
- develops optimistic outlook
- changed perspective
- strengthens & builds healthy society
- improves one's physical health & reduces the stigma of being mentally unhealthy.
It was an effective learning session which would help the educators to know about the mental health of the students and further enabling them to develop appropriate life-skills, self-esteem and resilience to overcome the mental health issues.