Shanghai, November 19 (China Youth Daily, China Youth Daily reporter Wang Yejie Wei Qimeng) Today, the Shanghai Changning District Education Bureau officially responded to the previous problem of "improper mental health questionnaires". In response, the Education Bureau has requested the suspension of the questionnaire work, "After preliminary verification, the District Mental Health Counseling Center for Minors and the relevant departments of our bureau have not strictly checked the content of the questionnaire, causing confusion among students and parents to worry, for which our bureau sincerely apologizes." Our bureau will further investigate and deal with it, and learn lessons, learn from each other, strictly manage, close home-school communication, and jointly protect the physical and mental health of students. ”
"In the last week, how have you done your preparations for suicide", "In the last week, have you begun to write your suicide last words"... Yesterday afternoon, a set of questionnaires on the prevention and treatment of depression in adolescents was passed on in the circle of friends of various parents in Shanghai. Some parents of Jiangsu Road No. 5 Primary School in Changning District, Shanghai, and the primary school department of Bao Yugang Experimental School have told the reporter of China Youth Daily and China Youth Network that their children have indeed done the above questionnaires, and some parents have calculated that nearly 40 of the more than 120 questionnaires are related to suicide. "It hurts too much for the kids. How many children are ready to commit suicide? A parent told reporters.
In the Parents Committee of the Primary School of Shanghai Bao Yugang Experimental School, a "Proposal on The Mental Health Survey of Primary and Secondary Schools in Changning District" was submitted to the Changning District Education Bureau, which clearly pointed out that "students reported that the content of the questionnaire was inappropriate". The Parents Committee quoted professional psychological practitioners as saying that the questionnaire inappropriately quoted the Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale, and in the fourth part of the questionnaire (58-67 mandatory questions) and the fifth part (68-95 multiple questions), the Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale was fully quoted, in which there were inappropriate questions such as whether to die, how to die, when to die, and written or not. Parents even found a definition of the original Beck Suicidal Ideation Scale in English, which translated and concluded that the questionnaire was aimed at patients at risk of suicide. The Parents Committee raised many objections in the proposal and asked the Changning District Education Bureau to explain.
Previously, according to the website of the Ministry of Education, the Ministry of Education recently replied to the "Proposal on Further Implementing the Prevention and Treatment Measures for Adolescent Depression" of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, which clearly included depression screening into the content of student health examinations, established student mental health files, assessed students' mental health conditions, and paid close attention to students with abnormal assessment results.
Source: China Youth Daily client