The Health Department will soon launch a campaign christened ‘School Mental Health Programme' in 16 districts across the State with a core objective to produce good quality students.

The initiative comes in the backdrop of suicides, violence, mental illness and other behavioural problems involving students, State nodal officer, District Mental Health Programme, C. Ramasubramanian said.

Funded by the Centre under the aegis of the National Mental Health Programme, the campaign involves a comprehensive and multi-pronged strategy that aims at addressing parents, teachers and students on different issues. The emphasis of parents and teachers should be to identity and promote the individual talents of students instead of pressuring them to achieve unrealistic goals.

Dr. Ramasubramanian, who is also a renowned psychiatrist, said students who were under constant pressure to perform on academic fronts often slipped into depression.

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Source: The Hindu