In January this year, the Senate Committee on Basic Education chaired by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian conducted a hearing to tackle Senate Bill 379. Know more:
IN January this year, the Senate Committee on Basic Education chaired by Senator Sherwin Gatchalian conducted a hearing to tackle Senate Bill 379, which aims to strengthen the promotion and delivery of mental health services in basic education schools through the institutionalization of the Mental Health and Well-Being Program.
Figures from the department showed that at least 775,962 learners sought guidance counseling from guidance counselors. However, DepEd lamented that there is a serious lack of guidance counselors in schools with only 2,093 to cover around 28 million learners in public schools—far from the recommended ratio in the Philippines of 1 counselor for 500 learners and farther from the 2005 American School Counselor Association recommendation of 1 is to 250.
While the department has a Mental Health Program, which involves campaigns and psychosocial support services in addition to co-curricular and extracurricular activities focused on mental health and the prevention of bullying and self-harm, there is an obvious need for the whole-of-government to ramp up its strategies in addressing what many are calling “a silent pandemic”, especially since mental health problems stem from factors within and outside the school’s boundaries.
This is why we are elated by the recent announcement of PhilHealth that the corporation is intending to roll out an outpatient benefit package for mental health this year, which has been our appeal for many years now. In fact, we filed Senate Bill 920 seeking to amend Republic Act 11036 or the Mental Health Act to mandate our national health insurance to include therapy sessions in the coverage of its mental and behavioral benefit package.
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