The long time in lockdown and home schooling could have led to psychological problems for many children and young people.
Nuremberg - The corona incidence figures on the Monday after the Whitsun holidays in Bavaria are 24.6 (as of 3.11 a.m., RKI).
No district or urban district is above 100. This means that all students in the Free State have to go back to alternating or face-to-face classes.
For many, a change after the long lockdown *.
And it is precisely this that could have led to more children and adolescents developing psychological problems, as current studies suggest.
Many students need support after returning to face-to-face classes
"It is now becoming more difficult to find out who is suffering from depression or who has simply adhered to the rules," says Inga Neubauer from the Nuremberg * Institute for Education and School Psychology to the
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A third of the students could be affected by mental or psychosomatic problems.
Seen in a school class, there are quite a few.
“We expect an increasing number of pupils with a need for support.” The teachers now have to take a closer look again in face-to-face classes.
It is difficult for the educators, but also for the parents, to differentiate in the adolescents what is just puberty and when it is a full-blown depression.
Difficulty getting up, stress with parents or school, and loss of appetite can be symptoms of both.
Student Ellora from the Nuremberg Labenwolf-Gymnasium tries to
explain
to the
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“In puberty you have mood swings, so great joy, great sadness, great anger.
Depression makes you deaf.
You don't feel anything. ”If the children withdraw and their thoughts revolve around the subject of death for weeks, then the time has come to get help at the latest, says Neubauer.
In Bavaria, the students return to face-to-face teaching (video)
Psychologists advise slowly going back to everyday school life
In order to raise awareness of the dangers of depression, the Nuremberg Health Department, in cooperation with the AOK, has launched the “Icebreaker” theater project.
Theater pedagogue Jean-Francois Drozak recorded a video with children from Labenwolf-Gymnasium during the Whitsun holidays, which can now be shown in class in other schools.
An important project for school psychologist Inga Neubauer.
The number of depression could have doubled during the pandemic *, they estimate.
And school principal Harald Behnisch appreciates that the distance teaching has lost many students.
In school, teachers would notice more quickly if something was wrong with a child.
From a distance, this is much more difficult, said Behnisch.
Psychologists are now advising forbearance on all sides when returning to classroom teaching. “Pupils with greater fears had no practice in overcoming them for a year,” says Neubauer. She recommends that schools start over slowly with exams and rehearsals so that the pressure to perform does not rise too quickly. But parents and children should also treat one another with indulgence. The long lockdown time was probably not always easy for either of them.
The regained routine through lessons at school could also help to stabilize the children.
School psychologist Neubauer says that if face-to-face lessons start again now, that will also be an opportunity for mental health.
It is necessary to get up again in the morning, to take a shower, to go out of the house.
The routines would provide more stability and enable recovery, said Neubauer to the
BR
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