{"id":30357,"date":"2026-06-10T20:00:01","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/?p=30357"},"modified":"2026-06-10T20:00:01","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T00:00:01","slug":"school-counselors-to-receive-enhanced-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/school-counselors-to-receive-enhanced-training\/","title":{"rendered":"School counselors to receive enhanced training"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-from September<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">-by Shamiah Grant <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an effort to tackle bullying and violence in schools, the Ministry of Education says\u00a0it is moving to strengthen support systems by providing enhanced psychology training\u00a0for guidance counsellors ahead of the new school term.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some 50 guidance counsellors within the school system will be among the first cohort to\u00a0undertake enhanced psychology training this September.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The programme will be delivered in partnership with the School of Nations and the UK-based\u00a0organisation through a 10-week course.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The announcement was made by Education Minister Sonia Parag during an anti-bullying and\u00a0anti-violence consultation in Region 5 on Tuesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Highlighting the importance of the initiative, Minister Parag explained that the programme\u00a0is designed to provide more in-depth psychology-based training to better address the growing\u00a0issues of bullying and violence in schools.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>&#8220;It&#8217;s an enhancement to the basic social work training that they would have already\u00a0received.\u00a0It will give them, I believe, the capacity or more of a capacity to be able to deal with\u00a0delicate and sensitive situations,&#8221; <\/strong>she explained. \u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Parag noted that educators who have already completed undergraduate and graduate studies\u00a0will also be included in the training programme.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, the training programme is expected to be expanded to all guidance counsellors\u00a0across the country in the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>-from September -by Shamiah Grant In an effort to tackle bullying and violence in schools, the Ministry of Education says\u00a0it is moving to strengthen support systems by providing enhanced psychology&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":30358,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[470,350],"tags":[488,1079,370,462,412,405,1078,987,767],"class_list":["post-30357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-488","tag-counselling","tag-guyana","tag-ministry-of-education","tag-ncn-guyana","tag-ncn-news","tag-psychology","tag-schools","tag-training"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30357"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30359,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30357\/revisions\/30359"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ncnguyana.com\/2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}