In recent times, the increase in psychiatry and psychological problems in school children has brought to light the importance of school psychology identified both by WHO, and acknowledged by different educational boards.

“It is very important to understand the psyche of a student. They get affected by the abnormalities of life just as adults do, unfortunately they are not better understood”, says Dr. Samir Parikh. “It is the right of every kid to behave as he feels like but the duty of the school authorities to make them responsible for their behaviour.”

During the formative years of a child, the students in different age groups have a variety of needs in physical, psychological, social, educational, vocational and emotional areas. These have to be identified and catered-to in order to provide a peaceful and productive frame of reference to their effective functioning.

This becomes almost essential, more so due to the ever increasing peer pressure of excelling both on and off the class room, which ultimately leads to depression and hence the ever increasing cases of suicides during examinations.

This was the main focus of the workshop where Dr Parikh talked about various remedies for these problems and how to understand your kid better.

Special programmes for schools are also conducted by the team. These programmes comprise of modules related to child’s behavioral development, classroom organisation, friendship skills, handling exam pressure, role of schools in a child’s development, study skills, self assessment, relaxation exercises, oppositional defiance disorder, language disorders and are also designed to address other common child psychiatry problems like anxiety in children, enuresis, depression and eating disorders.