Sarawak minister wants teachers trained to detect student depression
Sarawak’s Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Fatimah Abdullah says there is a need for a course to help teachers detect abnormal behaviour among students. – The Malaysian Insight file pic, May 16, 2019.
THE Education Ministry should send school teachers and counsellors for training to better detect signs of depressions among students, Sarawak’s minister in charge of children said. Sarawak’s Welfare, Community Wellbeing, Women, Family and Childhood Development Minister Fatimah Abdullah said the 16-year-old girl who committed suicide on Monday after being egged on by her Instagram friends and followers was an example of a troubled youth who had slipped the attention of her teachers and counsellors.
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