Ministry promotes positive behaviour among students – The Peninsula

Ministry promotes positive behaviour among students – The Peninsula

Doha: The Ministry of Education and Higher Education has affirmed that promoting positive behaviour among students in schools is on its list of interests by providing psychological, educational, and behavioural counselling and guidance to them, especially students with special needs and their parents.

The Student Guidance Department in the Schools Affairs Department, in cooperation with the Rou’a Assessment Advice and Support Centre under the Department of Special Education and Gifted Students, will hold the first forum for new psychologists in public schools, today and tomorrow to support students with special needs, with various educational guidance services.

The forum targets 100 new psychologists who were appointed in schools before and during the COVID-19 pandemic, and aims to support, promote and ensure the provision of psychological counselling to students with special needs, their parents, and those concerned with them.

The programme of the forum will include a number of topics, including the professional relationship between the psychologist and the guardian for the success of the individual plan and practical practices in psychological counselling for students with special needs and their parents and stakeholders such as the teacher and class students with special needs, administrative supervisor, social worker, school administration and teacher. Additionally, holding a panel