المملكة: Rehabilitation of 100 student routers to deal with student depression in Sharqia

Adolescent Health Department of Adolescents in the Erda Mental Health Complex in Dammam, in cooperation with school health programs in the health gathering and the Student Guidance Department of the Education Department in the Eastern Region, implemented a specialized training program under the title “Depression among our students: awareness, understanding, effective intervention.”
The program witnessed the attendance and participation of more than 100 directors and students representing the schools of boys and girls in the various governorates of the eastern region.

Scientific knowledge

The training program mainly targeted the provision of student mentors in schools with scientific knowledge and practical skills necessary to define accurate depression, its multiple causes, and the associated risk factors that may increase the possibility of its occurrence among students.
The program focused on enabling them to contribute effectively to early detection of possible depression between students and learn about early warning signs.

The risk of depression

The program deeply discussed the impact of depression on academic achievement and general behavior of students, and the pivotal role that the school can play in proper and supportive dealing with the affected cases within the educational environment.
In addition, the participants were introduced to the specialized health facilities affiliated with the Healthy Rally of Sharkia, which receives these cases, with an explanation of how to book the dates in them and the transferred mechanism followed.
In this context, Dr. Noura Abu fifty, head of the Department of Mental Health for Adolescents at the Erda Mental Health Complex in Dammam, stressed that this qualitative initiative aims mainly to enable mentors and students of students from tools that help them to identify early signs of depression among students and deal with them with high effectiveness and professionalism within the safe school environment.
She pointed out that the training program may include applied and practical aspects designed specifically to help the mentors to perform their role with confidence and efficiency, considering that the student mentor is the closest to the student, and that his support, training and providing him with the necessary skills is a vital and important investment in the general mental health of students.

Quality initiatives

While Dr. Youssef Al -Dulajan, Supervisor of School Health Programs in Al -Sharqiya Health Assembly, pointed to the great support and attention that the gathering attaches to such qualitative and specialized initiatives that serve an important segment in society.
He stressed the importance of these programs in enabling the role of mentors and mentors to the optimal dealing with depression that may appear among students, stressing that they represent a basic and important corner and a first line in direct dealing with students and providing the necessary support and guidance for them in a timely manner.
It is worth noting that Al -Sharqiya’s healthy gathering puts among its priorities to continue to hold such training courses and workshops periodically and continuously in the future, with the aim of qualifying and enabling more students and students in the eastern region schools.
In addition to raising the level of awareness among students themselves the symptoms of this common disease and methods of preventing it, within the framework of integrated efforts to contribute to reducing its spread and strengthening a psychological and socially healthy school environment.