School mental health plan: psychologists or psychiatrists?

In the wake of the epidemic before COVID-19Attention to Psychological health It has become a priority issue on the political agenda for 2022, especially for children and youth. For this reason, the government announced the establishment of mental health planendowed 5 million euroswhich will be implemented in cooperation with the Autonomous Communities and which have not yet been defined.

So much so, that this was confirmed by ministerial sources medical writingThe Department of Pillar Alegria is working together on the plan with the various Autonomous Communities in one of the working groups for the Education Sector Conference to identify What professional profiles will be involved and will be part of the project.

According to the Executive, the mental health plan in which this group operates, which is part of the 2021-2024 Action Plan for Mental Health and Covid-19 that the government presented last October, will give special importance to teacher trainingand provide them with tools to help them recognize and act upon these situations.

Mental health: focus on cyberbullying

The minister made the announcement on Thursday during an inauguration ceremony Seventh State Congress of Coexistence, which runs until Saturday in Logroño. In addition to the psychological and emotional health of children, the Minister confirmed her intervention in bullying charactersespecially from cyberbullyingIt is a phenomenon that has also grown with the pandemic and one of the issues at the heart of this Congress “given the high rates of harassment on networks, addiction to excessive interconnection from an early age and all its derivatives,” as he put it. .