Starting from 23 September, face-to-face classes will be resumed by phase in all primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in the territory. Students are about to resume school life after a prolonged period of home learning. While this is what most of them are looking forward to, there may be some who feel somewhat stressed or perturbed and need more time and teachers’ assistance to adjust to the change.
As such, the Education Bureau will organise 20 regional workshops for school personnel between 16 September and 4 November. Psychiatrists will be invited to share practical skills in providing emotional support for students, introducing approaches to counselling and therapeutic intervention, and discussing case studies, with a view to enhancing the capabilities of teachers and school personnel in supporting students so that they are less affected by negative emotions and stress, and can grow up happily.
In children’s vocabulary about emotions, “happy” is one of the first words they learn because happiness is a basic emotional response typical of human beings. However, we often hear students and teenagers express being unhappy. It seems that happiness fades away as one grows up. Why is this so?
