Psychological counseling division to be mandatory at VN schoolsVietNamNet Bridge - From February 2, psychological counseling divisions will be set up at all schools to give support to students, under a decision by the Ministry of Education and Training (MOET) followed experts’ warnings about the increasingly high number of students committing suicide because of depression. Psychological counseling divisions will be set up at all schoolsMarie Curie High School in district 3 in HCMC has 5,000 students this academic year. The HCMC Education & Training Department in the past released Decision 1090 setting up temporary regulations about the organization and operation of school counseling division. However, school psychologists were not recognized because MOET at that time had not defined the title ‘teacher of psychology’ at schools. Le Khanh, a psychological consultant, said that no psychological specialist was included in the division.

Source: VietNamNet News January 04, 2018 03:11 UTC