Students to get life skills lessons after brawl murder

[rooster59]

Students to get life skills lessons after brawl murder

By The Nation

 

 

Young people need help to manage their temper, emotions: Mental health boss.

 

 LIFE SKILLS lessons will be taught to vocational school students to solve the problems of public brawling and other issues. The move follows the tragic death of 15-year-old vocational school student Kittiphob Luang-in, who was stabbed to death in Nonthaburi by a rival school student when he was going to school on Thursday.

 

The Mental Health Department said the incident was due to the lack of emotional restraint and temper management among teenagers – so it has decided to introduce new life skills lessons.

 

The department’s deputy head Samai Sirithongthaworn said the problem of brawling between students from different vocational schools was mainly due to rivalry between schools and not personal issues.

 

 

Samai said that as well as giving mental health assistance to the victim’s family, injured students, and their friends, the department also sent a team of psychiatrists to both vocational schools to set up a monitoring system and emotion management enhancement, to prevent a repeat of the incident.

 

He said that as well as short term solutions, the department had a policy to solve this particular problem and other serious concerns, such as alcohol and cigarette addiction, underage pregnancy, and illegal motorcycle racing in the long term.

 

“As we are in the age of technology and information, our youths must have life skills to determine the information they receive and decide to make the right move. Life skills are a vaccine for teenagers against risky behaviour, which will harm their well-being as well as the others in society. 

 

“The department has been working with the Education Ministry to produce learning materials for life skills, lessons for the vocational school students to provide them with knowledge to deter risky behaviour.”

 

He said a pilot learning programme had already started at Dusit Technical College and Singburi Technical College from this semester and there would be improvements on the lessons before they are officially launched at the end of the year.

 

Dr Mathurada Suwannapho, director of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Rajanagarindra Institute, said the lessons focus on skills needed for life in modern Thai society – decision making, emotional expression and self-respect.

 

Source: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/news/national/30319588

 

 

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[Bluespunk]

6 minutes ago, rooster59 said:

Dr Mathurada Suwannapho, director of the Child and Adolescent Mental Health Rajanagarindra Institute, said the lessons focus on skills needed for life in modern Thai society – decision making, emotional expression and self-respect.

Not just teenagers that could benefit from such lessons. 

Edited July 1, 2017 by Bluespunk

[jvs]

6 minutes ago, Bluespunk said:

Not just teenagers that could benefit from such lessons. 

And not just in Thailand,all over the world kids have to learn stuff they never need again.

They should teach every one how to deal with conflicts and learn to understand

different points of view.Some children at five years of age are already racists,

they copy their parents behaviour.

[trainman34014]

One generation of savages 'bringing up' another generation of savages in the same old way means this problem will never go away.   Lessons on parenting would be a start to changing things but to try and 're-educate' people who have already grown into savages won't change anything, it's too late for them already.

[Pattaya28]

2 hours ago, rooster59 said:

emotion management enhancement,  

You really cannot make this stuff up.

Dare I say good parenting is the solution ?

[metisdead]

An off topic post has been removed. 

[phantomfiddler]

The Thai public has become so engrossed in the world of internet and fantasy that they can no longer see reality ! I saw it done on TV so it,s OK if I do it !

[Bangkok Barry]

6 hours ago, trainman34014 said:

One generation of savages 'bringing up' another generation of savages in the same old way means this problem will never go away.   Lessons on parenting would be a start to changing things but to try and 're-educate' people who have already grown into savages won't change anything, it's too late for them already.

 

Yes. Strange, isn't it, that you need some qualification, no matter how small, to work in a 7-11, but absolutely none at all to be a parent. It's a very strange world.

[NoBrainer]

They need discipline & serious punishment.

 

They need to feel it. When we were kids, if we stepped out of line we got a good beating, and knew that would be even worse if we did it again.

 

6 or 8 good whacks up the side of the head, in front of all your friends, will smarten you up for a while.

 

All of this coddling and slap on the wrist, being preached by all these nanny states, only breeds contempt for authority, and teaches the little f**** to

spot weaknesses, which they will surely exploit.

 

If a few good beatings, and taking away all of their electronic devices, for a few months, doesn't cure the problem, then it should be off to

the military for a compulsory 5 years.

 

That just might put a stop to this senseless murderous violence that seems to be the norm now.

 

 

[thhMan]

Believing and treating their boys as gods is the start of the battle

When they get their first Taxi Motorbike jacket, then the parents can be proud of how they raised little junior....

Some can lavish praise on them every few months when they visit them in jail...

 

And its then the parents will be relying on their girls to send them cash to keep the farm afloat

 

Life skills... BAHAHAHA...

[bbbbooboo]

criminal behaviour needs to receive criminal penalties..... if it doesn't you will only encourage it